Originally Posted by
Bat56
Wtf dude, your plug is coming loose. Get a different one. Anything. Whatever.
Now you're saying the headset is fine it's just the plug that's rattling?
I have pretty good reading comprehension and I cannot figure out what your issue is.
If your headset is properly adjusted, it does not "come loose" bc of the plug. If it comes loose it was not installed/adjusted properly - unless the problem is being caused by something other than the plug.
Unless you are saying that the crapppy plug is preventing you from installing correctly. In which case it's not loosening after a few rides, it was loose to begin with.
Move this to the mechanic forum.
Perhaps I miss spoke. Maybe it's just the spacers on the stem that are loose. More or less the same thing though, the sh*t that the steerer tube runs through is making noise because it isn't all tightened down enough because of crappy plug and/or as somebody below said the stem is sliding up after a few rides. Not very difficult to understand.
Originally Posted by
bobotech
If it is loosening up, I might look at the issue in a different way. I imagine that maybe the stem is sliding up the steerer during bumps. Use some sort of gritty carbon paste on the stem/steerer to prevent it from sliding?
Hadn't thought off using paste between the stem and steerer, helpful and thanks
Originally Posted by
StanSeven
that's why many use a 5mm spacer
I do use a 5mm spacer on top, but my steerer sticks up about 2mm higher than my stem, so there is 3mm left when everything is pushed down real well just before tightening in the plug.
Originally Posted by
fietsbob
you can use a plug of aluminum (Zn free, no 7000 series)
Machined.. and the center threaded for the 6x1 bolt .
and OD sized to just slip into your steerer tube ..
and epoxy it in place.. 5mm below the top end.
That seems like a lot of money to go have machined and a lot of work when the original question in this thread was if a headlock works on road carbon forks and is a simple $25. Is there any issue using that system in this application?
The only one I can think of is that I've heard a dual function of a compression plug is to counteract the squeezing forces of a stem with it's own pushing forces in the same place on the steerer. Plug is pushing out, stem is clamping down, if equalish amounts pressure is neutral on steerer. True or rubish?