Re: pvc tubing as threadless headset spacer



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On Fri, 01 Apr 2005 17:20:04 GMT, Neil Brooks <[email protected]>
wrote:

>[email protected] wrote:
>
>>Hello fellow list mates,
>>
>>Has anyone successfully used PVC plumbing tubing as a spacer for a
>>headset? The fork tube is too long and I do not want to cut it because
>>I believe that I would have trouble reinserting the star fangled nut.
>>My thinking is that if I use the PVC tubing above the stem, the stem
>>will hold everything together and there will be no pressure on the PVC
>>tubing.
>>
>>What I want to do, is use the PVC tubing below the stem and
>>consequently there would be pressure. Anybody have experience with
>>that? Thank you very much.
>>
>>Tom

>
>I feel another . . . pipe . . . doping . . . thread coming on.


Using a pipe for dope is so eighties. (Or so I'm told.)
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