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No, they don't work 'better' with Nitto stems, they work much worse! Thing is, your Cinelli is 26.4, and Nittos etc are 26.0, so much tighter! What I did with the 'coin trick' is having an actual bolt push the coin, instead of me holding the wrench or whatever. Still was a mess on the hoods area... Anyway, you're already past that problem :)
scorch-
Hm, I believe the clamp of the Cinelli A1 stem is exactly 26mm, at least the papers say so.
The diameter of the bars ditto.
But you´re right, this is not a problem for me anymore. I hope you can figure out how to pass the challenge.
On my previous build I used a 3TTT Status stem with Cinelli Vai bars and it went absolutely smoothly.
dragulievic
Man, exactly, I feel you... :D
Had exactly the same problem.
I believe they are not exactly 26mm but 26,05 or so, I have no idea, but it definitely should not be such a pain in the ass.
My solution: as I already mentioned earlier, I removed the bolt, put there two 2cent coins and a 32mm flat "headset wrench" in between the coins and applied some force to move the wrench a bit inside. Thus I was able to defeat the dreaded curved part but this was still insufficient at the center of the bars. My concern was overstretching the clamp of the stem and damaging it so I just greased the bars and moved the stem to the center of the bars.
There are some minor scratches, no big thing but still, it is not "brand new" anymore.
I wonder whether the bars work better with Nitto stems.
Anyways, these bars are definitely among the top 3 bars you can opt for if you are building a "vintage" bike.