Dent in steerer tube

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S-Express

Guest
Head tube - not steerer tube.

Depends how much money you want to spend, so you could either:

a) leave as is
b) fill it
or
c) replace the headtube
 

midlife

Guru
It's a Brown Brothers Vindec I guess.. reminds me of an old song lyric .....watch the mirror count the lines the battle scars of all the good times.

Shaun
 

screenman

Legendary Member
You could try a good auto dent repair man, ya know the invisible ones

I am one of those and have been doing PDR and teaching PDR for over 24 years.
 

andrew_s

Legendary Member
Location
Gloucester
Filling the dent is easiest, by some margin. I wouldn't be too worried about it, provided that the dent isn't deep enough that the back contacts the steerer (fork column).

Replacing the head tube would be about £150, plus a respray (Argos price list)

There is access to the rear of the dent, so it's not impossible that it could be pushed out by doing something like pulling or pushing through a section of round bar the same size as the inside of the head tube, with a long chamfer on one edge of it.
 

screenman

Legendary Member
[QUOTE 4595046, member: 45"]Do you do the thing where you glue hooks on and pull?[/QUOTE]

Yes but only for about 1 dent in every 100 as that is about all it will do. Even then once glue pulled there is often a lot of shrinking to do.
 

screenman

Legendary Member
What some do not realise is that sometimes to remove a small finger nail size dent can take 200 or 300 tiny pushes all in the right place, this to put the metal back without cracking the paint.
 
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