I agree with David. Whenever I went to 26.0 to 25.4 using a shim, it hasn't had the best results. But I would probably use loctite over grease.
On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 1:48:17 PM UTC-4, Zed Martinez wrote: > > David, I know. And someday, maybe. Next time the cables need replacing. > Put a lot of money on the card switching over to the Bosco cockpit as was > (and a month before my wedding, at that) just to keep things copacetic > since it's my daily commuter. Good stems aren't entirely cheap or easy to > justify when you already have a small collection of them. And then, the > clicking didn't set in until about a week after I'd got comfortable with > everything and finished building the bars out. So, now it's also just not > worth undoing the hours of wrapping and shellacking just to stop a small > ticking sound sometimes. > > Lungimsam, everything's crack free. Just put it together a couple weeks > ago. The Boscos and the shim are brand new, the stem only has 8 months of > use on it from being new last year. Definitely think it's just the metal > sandwich. Was worried about the grease too because of the shim, which is > why I was pondering maybe more of the Loctite 609 I picked up for the > seatpost after reading a different thread on here, or something similar > that'd fill the metal-on-metal contact but maybe also help lock it in > rather than the opposite. > > On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 1:38:06 PM UTC-4, David Banzer wrote: >> >> Hi Zed, >> Not what you're asking, but I'd get a 25.4mm stem. I really don't care >> for shimming handlebars and would rather get the appropriate clamp size >> stem. I think folks' use the Loctite trick for sleeved bars, which a >> shimmed Bosco would be similar to. >> David >> Chicago >> >> On Friday, March 18, 2016 at 12:23:54 PM UTC-5, Zed Martinez wrote: >>> >>> Just to pick the minds of y'all wonderful people. I'm trying Bosco >>> regulars on my Clem after a rough winter of strong headwinds proving the >>> albastaches and my wrists weren't getting along when used on the Clem. I >>> already had a 100mm Technomic Deluxe around I'd use with the albas on a >>> different build, so, I just opted to use that with a shim for the Boscos. >>> Fit is fine, and it clamps perfectly fine (not getting any bar rotation >>> even with the Boscos leverage). Only problem, if you can call it that, is >>> leaning weight on the very ends of the bars will cause a faint clicking >>> sound at the clamp in the cooler weather, I'm guessing because of the shim >>> sandwich. Anyone know any ways to mitigate that short of a different stem? >>> The bars are quite built up and it'd be really annoying tearing them down >>> just to fix a clicking. Would maybe a drop or two of something from >>> Loctite's catalog help you think? >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to rbw-owners-bunch+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to rbw-owners-bunch@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
