Stripped ics bolt

[layne3]

When I was loosening the ICS bolt, it loosened about 5mm till it stopped loosening and made a screeching noise and it wont come any further. How can I remove this without damaging forks or bars?

 

[layne3]

I fixed this by putting on a boot with a strong heel and lifted my bars then stomped the deck till the ics starnut pulled itself out of bars

 

[Madis]

Maybe you stripped the starnut actually? As in, the core of the starnut came loose from the flanges, and when you twist the compressionbolt, the core moves on with the bolt but does not tighten nor untighten.

BUT anyways, what you just described is probably the best way to get it detached. I've seen results worse than this when theres a situation where the starnut doesn't want to explode nor move backwards out in a way like you just described. Congrats.

To avoid this next time, I'd reccomend using an SCS or an HIC system, because removing broken starnuts from forktubes is easier as forktubes are accessible from both ends as opposed to handlebars which have just one entry/exit (excluding "Buff" 3-piece bars)

 

[layne3]

Maybe you stripped the starnut actually? As in, the core of the starnut came loose from the flanges, and when you twist the compressionbolt, the core moves on with the bolt but does not tighten nor untighten.

BUT anyways, what you just described is probably the best way to get it detached. I've seen results worse than this when theres a situation where the starnut doesn't want to explode nor move backwards out in a way like you just described. Congrats.

To avoid this next time, I'd reccomend using an SCS or an HIC system, because removing broken starnuts from forktubes is easier as forktubes are accessible from both ends as opposed to handlebars which have just one entry/exit (excluding "Buff" 3-piece bars)

Yeah this was my friends scooter that he is borrowing from his friend. He had a proto scs and he asked me to get his scooter a bit more dialed etc. So I began taking it apart and found out that it was actually ics and not scs. So I setup Scs for him now. But yeah I think what you said was right where the starnut came loose.