For a steel open face stem with sharp edges use some fine grit sandpaper or emery cloth and gently smooth over the edges using your fingers. Wear a leather glove if it's really rough. Careful use of rotary tool would work as long as you are careful and use a light touch and nothing too abrasive. You just want to take the sharp edge off and it takes very little to do that.
I don't care about superficial scratches on bikes but I do care about cutting fingers on edges that ought to have been finished at the factory. On Monday, September 30, 2024 at 10:45:57 AM UTC-4 dros...@gmail.com wrote: > Definitely don’t grease. I use Park anti slip gel on mine and I can’t get > them not to slip without it. On any of the swept bars, if I’m standing and > applying leverage to the bars, I’m always doing so in front of the brake > levers and never at the bar ends. Personally, I’ve always had bad luck with > single bolt stems and swept bars for anything hit the most casual of > riding. The single best thing I’ve found are BMX stems, the only downside > being weight and the fact that you can’t really find them with a reach over > 70mm. > > On Sun, Sep 29, 2024 at 11:59 AM D H <dinoh...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> >> 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-bun...@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 >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/rbw-owners-bunch/be783a3c-fc6a-490f-aeee-202b25a3326en%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> > -- 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/4ada1fc9-8dd5-4307-bca4-bf8333ff6967n%40googlegroups.com.
