removing star nut from fork

Eric Murray said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

Thanks.

Eric

I don't think you can. That's one of the reasons why these
exist cambriabike.comazheadl.htmOpen ↗

I'll never use a star nut again.
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Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

Thanks.

Eric

A drill.

Chris

Why would you want to remove it? They are real cheap so that
can not be it. They do not weigh a lot so.

It think driving it out the bottom is the only way without
cutting if carefully from above.

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Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

Thanks.

Eric

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Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

Thanks.

Eric

Just hammer it down inside the tube, you can probably fit
a good 5 or 10 of them in there. Tell people it's for
lateral rigidity.
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Chris Phillipo said:

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[email hidden] says...

Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube?

Quoted message said:

Just hammer it down inside the tube, you can probably fit
a good 5 or 10 of them in there. Tell people it's for
lateral rigidity.

But...but...the weight!!!

Bill "gram cracker" S.

When they don't work anymore or their down the tube to far
to work just knock it all the way out. Now replace it with a
new one and set it down about 5 mm from top of tube.

MTB Ride hard die free.

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Quoted message said:

Why would you want to remove it? They are real cheap so
that can not be it. They do not weigh a lot so.

It think driving it out the bottom is the only way without
cutting if carefully from above.

Some steerer tubes are narrower at the bottom than the top,
Fox vanilla for instance, and it will get progressively more
difficult till its wedged right in the bottom. As said above
, drill out the central core and bend it in towards the
middle to remove.

g

On Sat, 01 May 2004 18:37:00 GMT, [email hidden] (Eric
Murray) blathered:

Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

What the others have said, plus: you don't say why you
want to remove
it. If you haven't already got a replacement in mind you
should consider a USE ring-o-star (third item down this
page) bikepedlar.co.ukBike PedlarOpen ↗
Online_Head_Set_Spares_32.html

It's an expanding collar that sits under the stem; more
blurb on that page, plus the nice little fact you can
adjust your headset without having to slack off the stem
bolts (and it's lighter than a SFN)! I'd be running one
myself if I had enough room under my stem (I don't, very
long head tube); a mate has one and it's a lovely little
gadget, a genuine upgrade.

Pete

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Pete Jones said:

On Sat, 01 May 2004 18:37:00 GMT,
[email hidden] (Eric Murray) blathered:

Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

What the others have said, plus: you don't say why you want
to remove
it.

I was going to use a USE ring-o-star and it seems a bit
sloppy to leave the star nut in there.

Quoted message said:

If you haven't already got a replacement in mind you should
consider a USE ring-o-star (third item down this page) htt-
p://www.bikepedlar.co.uk/acatalog/Bike_Pedlar_Online_Head_-
Set_Spares_32.html

It's an expanding collar that sits under the stem; more
blurb on that page, plus the nice little fact you can
adjust your headset without having to slack off the
stem bolts

That's the feature I was interested in.

Eric

On Wed, 05 May 2004 23:21:33 GMT, [email hidden] (Eric

Murray) said:

In article <[email hidden]>,

Pete Jones said:

On Sat, 01 May 2004 18:37:00 GMT,
[email hidden] (Eric Murray) blathered:

Quoted message said:

How do you remove a star nut from inside a fork tube
without damaging the fork tube? Driving it out the bottom
seems like it'd tear up the aluminum fork tube.

What the others have said, plus: you don't say why you
want to remove
it.

I was going to use a USE ring-o-star and it seems a bit
sloppy to leave the star nut in there.

Quoted message said:

If you haven't already got a replacement in mind you
should consider a USE ring-o-star (third item down this
page) bikepedlar.co.ukBike Pedlar OnOpen ↗
line_Head_Set_Spares_32.html

It's an expanding collar that sits under the stem; more
blurb on that page, plus the nice little fact you can
adjust your headset without having to slack off the
stem bolts

That's the feature I was interested in.

Eric

Keep the star nut and your old head cap. the use end cap has
a delightful habit of jumping out on occasion. Other than
that its a great system Martin