Old 08-15-12 | 09:38 AM
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Originally Posted by Airburst
We used to use one at the co-op I volunteer at, whenever we cut forks and handlebars down, but we went through an awful lot of cutting wheels for it. They also, in my experience, have a tendency to move sideways across the surface rather than cut into the steel, since steel's much harder than copper. Ours was size-adjustable though.

We now have a Park Tools cutting guide, but in all honesty, I normally just put the soft jaws in the vice, stick the fork in it and cut it by eye. I can get a fairly straight cut by doing that. I also file a taper onto the top of the tube, rather than leaving it flat. I find the stem goes on more easily that way.
OK, then soft jaws in vice it is. I definitely plan on filing a chamfer onto the rim of the tube.
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