• Hi everyone,

    As you all know, Coffee (Dean) passed away a couple of years ago. I am Dean's ex-wife's husband and happen to have spent my career in tech. Over the years, I occasionally helped Dean with various tech issues.

    When he passed, I worked with his kids to gather the necessary credentials to keep this site running. Since then (and for however long they worked with Coffee), Woodschick and Dirtdame have been maintaining the site and covering the costs. Without their hard work and financial support, CafeHusky would have been lost.

    Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working to migrate the site to a free cloud compute instance so that Woodschick and Dirtdame no longer have to fund it. At the same time, I’ve updated the site to a current version of XenForo (the discussion software it runs on). The previous version was outdated and no longer supported.

    Unfortunately, the new software version doesn’t support importing the old site’s styles, so for now, you’ll see the XenForo default style. This may change over time.

    Coffee didn’t document the work he did on the site, so I’ve been digging through the old setup to understand how everything was running. There may still be things I’ve missed. One known issue is that email functionality is not yet working on the new site, but I hope to resolve this over time.

    Thanks for your patience and support!

Steer tube threads bad

N

NWRider

Husqvarna
AA Class
I usually do all the work on my bike but a local shop that I bought new head tube bearings from was willing to press out the steer tube and put the new bearing on for an additionally $8.

Well they apparently did not protect the threads very well. Now I can not get the nut to go on more than half a turn. The threads are not real bad and I think a steel nut would clean them up on the way on. But I am sure the aluminum nut would get stripped.

How can I fix this? If I had a steel nut I would try to carefully get it threaded on but a nut that size with such fine threads is not the kind of thing I can find in a hardware store. I thought about using a metric thread file but the local hardware store is out for now and I am not sure who else has one. Any other ideas?
 
You can try ordering a thread file, or a die that will fit it. Sounds like they pressed on the end of the steering tube with the press and that mushroomed out the end of the steering tube and squished the threads a little. If you can measure the end of the stem so you know how much it is mushroomed out that might help in your decision. Here is a link to a metric file. I order from here all the time. They offer a free next day shipping upgrade if you ask. Not sure if it has to be over a certain $$ amount though.

http://metalworking.mscdirect.com/CGI/NNSRIT?PMPXNO=1737324
 
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McMaster-Carr. God bless McMaster-Carr.

I have a metric thread file in my toolbox at work from them.

But if you wish, first take a look.... assemble it and figure out ... how far down the stem the aluminum nut would be if installed. If it's a good bit below the stems top, then just heavily chamfer it, (even cut a bit off), and clean the top starting thread with a triangle file and a razor knife. Really.

The stems likely crushed just a thread or two down.

Dave
 
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