Where to find compressor plugs?
01-23-06, 09:25 AM
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Where to find compressor plugs?
I bought a Cane Creek IS-2 headset and realized that it didn't come with a compression plug for my carbon fork, which seems kind of dumb to me since 90% of the bikes out there now has carbon forks with carbon steerer tubes. Anyways, where can I find a compression plug? The only ones I can seem to find are the crappy ones from Profile or the one-piece ones from FSA, I still wanna use my Cane Creek top cap, would look silly to have an FSA top cap on a Cane Creek headset even though they're basically the same thing. Any help would be much appreciated.
01-23-06, 10:12 AM
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Here you go: https://cgi.ebay.com/FSA-Alloy-Compre...QQcmdZViewItem
As to the "look". I have FSA compressor plugs in use with a variety of headsets, and it looks just fine. Unless you buy a fork that comes with its own branded compressor plug, you really don't have much of a choice.
As to the "look". I have FSA compressor plugs in use with a variety of headsets, and it looks just fine. Unless you buy a fork that comes with its own branded compressor plug, you really don't have much of a choice.
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Yes, you can't use a star nut with a carbon fiber steer tube.
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Ok so I am on my first compressor/CF Steerer so excuse my ignorance here...can't you just take the bolt the whole way out and swap the top cap?
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Originally Posted by blandin
Yes, you can't use a star nut with a carbon fiber steer tube.
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Yes, you can use a compressor plug with other steerer materials. The main reason you have to use a compressor plug for carbon steerers is that you risk cracking the steerer tube with the thin star nut.
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Originally Posted by blandin
Here you go: https://cgi.ebay.com/FSA-Alloy-Compre...QQcmdZViewItem
As to the "look". I have FSA compressor plugs in use with a variety of headsets, and it looks just fine. Unless you buy a fork that comes with its own branded compressor plug, you really don't have much of a choice.
As to the "look". I have FSA compressor plugs in use with a variety of headsets, and it looks just fine. Unless you buy a fork that comes with its own branded compressor plug, you really don't have much of a choice.
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BTW- on my training bike my FSA top cap sits on top of my Cane Creek head set and looks just fine 
. I wouldn't worry about it DRLski... but that's just me.
- RJ
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