Best Way To Cut Steertubes On Forks??

konablaster

Hi,

Anyone got any good ideas of how to get a good cut of your forks?

Cheers.

ride_whenever

Use a proper cutting guide or a pipe cutter.

If you only have a hacksaw, rearrange your headset stack and put an old spacer in place to use as a guide, obviously it'll need to be a little thinner than what you plan to use so that you can pre-load the bearings.

dennisn

Use a pipe cutter or hacksaw on steel or aluminum. Hacksaw only, with a guide, on carbon.

konablaster

It's for a pair of 2008 dj2's

BlackSpur

When cutting always take off slightly less than you think you need to - you can always cut more off but you can't add it back on!

Anonymous

i use a dremel with a disc cutter bit

chrisbuck

I did mine last weekend,

Clamp them in a workbench (using wood either side), so that the steerer tube is vertical.

I had previously scribed a mark all the way round and then lowered it by 2mm.

Then, very slowly, with a junior hacksaw, I went round with a few strokes of the hacksaw, move round a bit, and do a few more strokes until there is a nice hacksaw line all the way round. Then just keep on going round and round. Took me about 15 mins, going very slowly.

It's a scary thing to do when you've just shelled out a few hundred quid for some forks only to take a hacksaw to them :?

I'm sure that its much quicker with proper tools and a guide - I pretty much followed the instructions on http://www.bikemagic.com/news/article.a ... 1&UAN=3025 though.

ChrisB

Steve_b77

Use a good full sized hacksaw with a 24tpi (teeth per inch) bi-metalic blade and cut very carefully, no need to mess around with a Junior one as the cut will be much more accurate with a full sized hacksaw due to the depth of the blade and the amount of tension you can place in it with a decent saw.

Ensure you carefully file off the burrs afterwards though.

measure twice, mark once, check twice, cut once - BINGO

stumpyjon

I used a mitre saw (intended for wood :shock: ) which you can pick up really cheap or you could use a saw guide block. E.g.

http://www.screwfix.com/cats/A335557/Ha ... Saws-Boxes

Probably b*ggered the blade but it cut the Ali well enough. Bike shop would have done it for nowt but I had to take the forks home to work out the length I needed. Plus £15 doesn't seem much when you just shelled out £ 400 on forks.

streako

I use an ancient 150mm stem clamped to the steerer as a guide, and then cut with a DeWalt jigsaw with metal cutting blade.

Tidy up with a file and away you go!

The Big Cheese

streako wrote:

I use an ancient 150mm stem clamped to the steerer as a guide, and then cut with a DeWalt jigsaw with metal cutting blade.

Tidy up with a file and away you go!

more power!

Sounds a great way of doing it - I must admit to being a lazy censored and getting the LBS to do it for me (£10 well spent in my eyes) with star nut fitted also

ride_whenever

My lbs did it for me for free! Even though i'd bought the forks online, it helps that the guy who works there doesn't really like the boss so always does things on the cheap for regulars.

The Big Cheese

ride_whenever wrote:

My lbs did it for me for free! Even though i'd bought the forks online, it helps that the guy who works there doesn't really like the boss so always does things on the cheap for regulars.

Sweet - a do like a bit of freemans.....