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.058"
That’s just a mind-bending anachro-number, what does it mean?! Nearly 6/10ths of an inch... I’m see what you’re saying: normal tubing could look too thin to marry up with a stem clamp... but I’d guess not as bad looking as massive thick alloy ones do.
Skülly-
Easier if you convert to mm?
It’s about 1.5mm. Frame tubing would generally be around 0.8ish mm at the heaviest.
Thinking about it actually, the od would be easy enough to match but it’d have the wrong id so would be a loose fit on the steerer.
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I guess the real solution to the space issue is to have a stem custom made with the stack height you require and then you don’t need spacers.
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That’s just a mind-bending anachro-number, what does it mean?! Nearly 6/10ths of an inch...
you just say 'fifty eight thou'. american engineering types still use thousandths of an inch as a reasonably precise unit of measurement for things in areas like machining on lathes and so on. confusingly, they call ten-thousandths of an inch 'tenths'.
roughly 40 thou is a millimetre, so yeah 58 thou is 1.5mm near enough
M_V
fizzy.bleach
Guess some framebuilders might have stainless in stock in the same wall thickness you'd build a stem from but I can't really see why.
I use tubing with a .058" wall thickness to build steerer clamps for stems so its a lot heavier than frame tubing.