I have had a Technomic stem quill hit bottom inside the steerer on a slightly too small 53cm frame.
I didn't stop to investigate where it was hitting, and employed a fix: I cut off some of the quill with a hacksaw. It was a lot of cutting, it wasn't a wonderfully clean cut, the exact angle was hard to do, and the Max Height marking was no longer accurate. But I ended up with the stem in a good position for me.
Tom Selsley Arlington, VA
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 09:20:55 EST, philcycles@aol.com <philcycles@aol.com> wrote:
>
> In a message dated 11/22/04 6:15:42 AM, jerrymoos@sbcglobal.net writes:
> But when I installed it, I found that the bottom end of the extra
> >long quill bottomed out on the fork crown, or actually probably on the
> >flange of the HS lower fixed cup inside the headtube.
>
> Actually it bottomed out on the butt in the steerer..
> Phil Brown