carbon steerer

gazeds

is it easy enough to cut a carbon steerer yourself or would you take to a shop to be cut

redddraggon

Always cut mine myself.

32tpi saw blade

Slow Downcp

Easy to cut as long as you measure it correctly. Just use a hacksaw with a sharp blade.

Radioactiveman

Carbon is relatively easy to cut,just make sure you make the cut nice and square and use a hacksaw blade with 32tpi. Good idea to tape the area being cut.

Just dont clamp it tightly in a vice while you are doing it

http://www.eastonbike.com/downloadable_ ... Carbon.pdf

ajb72

Radioactiveman wrote:

Carbon is relatively easy to cut,just make sure you make the cut nice and square and use a hacksaw blade with 32tpi. Good idea to tape the area being cut.

Just dont clamp it tightly in a vice while you are doing it

http://www.eastonbike.com/downloadable_ ... Carbon.pdf

spot on - I wrap electricians tape around the tube below the cut line to keep me sawing straight!

nodman7

i used a Steerer Saw Guide i got from

http://www.webbline.co.uk/default.asp?pID=8

bought the bottom bracket taps aswell, spot on tools and quite cheap, all good

clamped the guide round the steerer tube n cut right thru with a hacksaw, easy n dead straight

stokey1964

I used an old alu steering spacer on mine

taped it in the correct postion and then it served as a guide for the hacksaw.


Simon

Velonutter

I bought one of these as I figured £19 to cut it right rather than £100's to buy a replacement.

http://www.parker-international.co.uk/4 ... Guide.html

I'm surprised just how many times I have needed it since, just clamp it in a vice and as everyone says a nice sharp blade.

Brassknocker

I used an old spacer to keep it 'square' + slow and steady with a new hacksaw blade - use a file on the edges afterwards (inside and out)

I was warned by friends before to avoid breathing in the dust - possibly carcinogenic? (sp)?

Heckler1974

Brassknocker wrote:

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I was warned by friends before to avoid breathing in the dust - possibly carcinogenic? (sp)?

It's not the nature of the dust, it's the size of the particles, small enough and it gets stuck in the lining of your lungs irritates them and in the process of removing the fibres you could get scarring to your lungs and damage to their capacity.

Basically if you were cutting this stuff all day everyday (in a closed room with no windows and not wearing any protection) you could theoretically wind up with something like asbestosis (don't know what the equivilant condition is with carbon, carbonosis (?)) but I'd imagine cutting a steerer once in a while so long as you take reasonable precautions wouldn't harm you that much.

redddraggon

Heckler1974 wrote:

Brassknocker wrote:

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I was warned by friends before to avoid breathing in the dust - possibly carcinogenic? (sp)?

It's not the nature of the dust, it's the size of the particles, small enough and it gets stuck in the lining of your lungs irritates them and in the process of removing the fibres you could get scarring to your lungs and damage to their capacity.

Basically if you were cutting this stuff all day everyday (in a closed room with no windows and not wearing any protection) you could theoretically wind up with something like asbestosis (don't know what the equivilant condition is with carbon, carbonosis (?)) but I'd imagine cutting a steerer once in a while so long as you take reasonable precautions wouldn't harm you that much.

Bit of water to dampen down the dust and you should be fine.