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battle #129518 01/09/09 12:36 AM
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here is a sample picture of a handlebar expanding assembly:



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Am I the only one hoping no one takes their mountain bike apart and tries to stuff their handlebar hardware down the barrels of Grandpas' Parker?


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A bicycle gooseneck is wedged into the forks by tightening the bolt on top of it. Inside the forks, a wedge is being drawn uphill over the angled bottom of the stem by the draw bolt.
The Baker tool mimicks the wedging of the bicycle gooseneck.

The wedge is touching the bump inside of the shotgun barrell tangentially. Plannishing relieves the stress in the bump of the barrell, allowing the pressure from the wedge to push it out incrementally. When the wedge becomes loose, or the tightening handle can be turned a little more, then the plannishing can reoccur. Rinse and repeat.

When the dent has been fully raised, and the stresses around it relieved through the hammering, the wedge can be removed by:
1. loosen the tightening bolt,
2. A sharp wrap on the tightening bolt head will drive the wedge down out of the taper, and the whole assembly will slide out of the barrell.

This removal process is exactly how one removes the handlebars from the fork of a bicycle.

I suggested going to the local skill center, because young people need to learn, the tool is very simple, and it gives the youngsters a look into the future application of their training. It would help them tie what they are learning today, with what the real world can do with such training.


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A picture seems a thousand words.
Thanks.

But now I hope that everyone can see how the very simple bolted wedge is used to raise dents, or keep your handle bars straight.

I used the handlebar illustration because as a male centric site, I thought surely everyone here would have had an untimely meeting with their Ashtabula stem at some point in their youth. Memorable, and illuminating.


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