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Surely I can just go LBS and they would provide me with a nice long screw?
The screw is the least of your problems, any fastener shop will happily sell you an M6 socket cap screw in lengths up to at least 60mm. You need to bin the part shown and fit a lower stack bearing cover to get anywhere near a safe amount of steerer in the stem clamp. The old school assembly instruction is ≤3mm down from the top of the stem to the top of the steerer. With metal steerers, that's enough to avoid instant death but it can still lead to annoyingly frequent requirement for headset adjustment. The modern method, which is safe for all steerer materials, is ≥3mm up from the top of the stem to the top of the steerer.
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@edscoble sorry, bit dazed right now, which part do I lower? The stem is slammed and All of the screws I tried don't reach the thread in the hole. Surely I can just go LBS and they would provide me with a nice long screw?
(I miss my hatta threaded headset and nitto jag)