Timeline for Can I cut the steerer tube with a pipe cutter?
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| May 4, 2021 at 21:44 | vote | accept | Alessandro Cosentino | ||
| Apr 26, 2021 at 14:38 | comment | added | Dan K | Flaring pipe is normally done from the inside wall, pipe cutters won’t flare a pipe from the outside. | |
| Apr 26, 2021 at 7:40 | comment | added | gschenk | Isn't running rollers around a pipe is a method to widen it in manufacturing? Flaring is a valid concern. Especially when the cutting tool is not sharp large forces are needed. Might need an experiment to find out if it happens for steerers. | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 8:55 | comment | added | Jeff | So my opportunities to install a new fork requiring a steer tube shortening have been rare, the used fork business being rather vibrant around me. I've suffered many a broken heart seeing a Pike, 32 & 34FLOAT RLC, or Bomber at an unusually reasonable price only to find a sub-6" steer tube mocking me in it's ruinous appearance | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 8:40 | comment | added | Jeff | Neither 100's of copper pipe cuts nor the 3 or 4 steer tubes that I've cut have I seen what appeared as a flared--or slightly larger diameter (to be clear on what's being said)--end after a cut. Though it's not that I couldn't have missed it. I'm more concerned with the roundness, as it pertains to a good install of brass fittings & their valves in underground copper water pipe services from a main into a building. In the distant past, I had trouble sawing anything straight that wasn't wood with a bold pencil mark to guide. Included some stem's and seat tubes (no biggie here 'cept principle) | |
| Apr 25, 2021 at 5:26 | comment | added | Nathan Knutson | +1. Early on in wrenching I was told that pipe cutters might seem appealing but have the downside that they can result in the tube being flared in the cut area. In truth I've never really used them for steerers or bars because I haven't wanted to mess with the consequences of the diameter getting flared out. Do you feel that's a non-issue if used right? That might be a good thing to add discussion about if so. | |
| Apr 24, 2021 at 20:45 | history | answered | Jeff | CC BY-SA 4.0 |