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without seeing it, could you hacksaw off the offending section and then saw another slit in further up?
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If it's a proper bulge (swage), then it's fucked. More likely to be a bit of a burr though, in which case you could definitely file it off. Replace the bolt though, I wouldn't trust it after it has been over tightened. Well, I would, but I pretend I'm sensible on here.
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Oh hang on, cinellie use expanders rather than wedges don't they?
Like on the right ja?
Never understood why they used those. Anyone care to enlighten me? It's always struck me as particularly fucking stupid to design a stem that asks a rigid, brittle material prone to fatigue to flex in order to work properly. It also makes it way too easy to over tighten them, as demonstrated by OP.
But yeah, if it is aluminium, and has been forced apart too far, it's probably knackered. Show us a picture anyway though. -
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why can't the end be sawed off? does it taper inside?
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its tapered inside
ahhh that explains it, thanks
lovecloughfixie
tallsam
Alfie
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over expanded cinelli quill stem
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as per title, i brought this in october, and just got around building it, and find out that the expanding wedge has been done up too much causing deformation of the base of the quill stem (which i suspect is what caused the fork that came with the frame to have a rippled steerer too),
so the problem is that the stem wont go in nicely into the headset+fork, any idea if the stem is salvagable or going to have to be made into an wall mount art piece?, the stem is reall nice and polished and the bar i have with it is nice too, would really like to put it to use,
thanks
kirk