The sleeve of my Billie bars got pretty scratched when installing them in my new 90-190 stem. I moved the bar where I wanted it while it wasn't fully tightened, and then i noticed two impressive scratches that looked like they were caused by the corners of the face plate and of the front of the stem body. I'm just wondering what happened and if anybody else has experienced this. This has never happened with all the other stems I've worked with.
I'd like to prevent these scratches in the future. Not sure if these stems are treated with anything, but maybe smoothing out the corners/edges of the stem with a Dremel or maybe even a Flex-Hone? (They seemed like they could be smoother when a ran my finger over them.) Or should I have just been more careful? It just scratched so easily. Maybe this stem is a defect? And are we supposed to be putting grease at the bar-stem interface? This situation reminds me of seatposts. -- 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 view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/be783a3c-fc6a-490f-aeee-202b25a3326en%40googlegroups.com.
