Originally Posted by
Bone Head
Thanks for your experience. Considering I am mechanically inclined, can you explain to me why I had a problem with 3 or 4 forte tubes (no stem nut) consecutively and never had problem with any other brand (smooth stem therefore no nut)? I'm confident I didn't do anything different from brand to brand when installing the pump head on the stem.
Perhaps it was a bad batch of tubes??
(I don't use stem nuts because it saves rotational weight -- inertia)
Perhaps stems that are not intended for using a stem nut, are made differently, from ones where a stem nut is intended, as for using or not using the nut when it's intended, if the only reason for not doing so is rotational weight, that's a pretty poor excuse, the stem nut weighs maybe 2g tops. I always found that when the nut was included I used it, when it wasn't, I didn't worry about it. Now if they could only make a valve cap that I didn't lose all the time.....
