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General: Steerer tube cut down and re-threaded

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    • CommentAuthorKyle No 27
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2009 edited
     
    ok, so i just got my bike island kilo tt in the mail and the steerer tube is about a foot and a half long with the top inch and a half threaded. i would like to run threaded with a quill stem so i would need to get it cut down and re-threaded but no bike shop around me(i talked to 5) would do it. anyone else with threaded kilos have to do this? or anyone have to do it on any fork? a few of them told me to go to a machine shop. what have you guys done?
    • CommentAuthorwes m.
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2009
     
    Wow that sucks. I checked and apparently they are selling them uncut and threaded way to high on purpose. Thats odd. I've never had a fork threaded before but I know that my lbs has the resources to do it. I'd say that you should just keep calling around. If you live in a major city you might have a local frame builder who can help you out. Good luck man.
    • CommentAuthorSkidMark
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2009 edited
     
    Thread down, then cut. You need some existing threads to screw the die onto and get it started perpendicular.

    I have yet to find this thread die outside of the bike industry and Park wants almost 2x what a die that big usually goes for.
    • CommentAuthorSkidMark
    • CommentTimeJun 19th 2009 edited
     
    Wow, I just looked at the picture on their site. Nobody is going to want to thread that down that far, too much wear on the die. The only person who could help you is a framebuilder who will have the tooling to start the die perpendicular on an unthreaded steerer tube.

    You might want to ask this question on fixedgeargallery.com. I know they have some perferred framebuilder type people who don't mind doing small tasks like this.
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    I have run into this problem as well with some of my bike hacks. To me it seems so simple, but then again I am not a true bike mechanic. I ended up searching for a used fork that would serve my needs till I found one.

    Good luck man, I feel your pain!
    • CommentAuthorSkidMark
    • CommentTimeJun 20th 2009
     
    Yeah, it's easy with the right tools, and easy to fuck up without them.

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