Okay, seriously, though. Everyone says that Cryofit works like this (essentially):
1: put the crown in the oven. This causes it to swell, making the hole bigger.
2: put the stanchions or steerer tube in the freezer. This causes it to shrink, making the tube diameter smaller.
3: put them together. As they cool/warm up, they will return to normal size and clamp the living sh!t out of each other.
Now, this makes no sense to me. If you put a donut-shaped piece of metal in the oven, it swells, which should make the hole SMALLER, not bigger. If you put it in the freezer, it should shrink, which should make the hole bigger (See Diagram).
So my question is this: is everybody's theory on how this works just a crackpot theory? Or is my diagram wrong? I've heard this theory a lot, and even heard it applied to headset installation, etc. Shouldn't you put both pieces in the deep-freeze?
1: put the crown in the oven. This causes it to swell, making the hole bigger.
2: put the stanchions or steerer tube in the freezer. This causes it to shrink, making the tube diameter smaller.
3: put them together. As they cool/warm up, they will return to normal size and clamp the living sh!t out of each other.
Now, this makes no sense to me. If you put a donut-shaped piece of metal in the oven, it swells, which should make the hole SMALLER, not bigger. If you put it in the freezer, it should shrink, which should make the hole bigger (See Diagram).
So my question is this: is everybody's theory on how this works just a crackpot theory? Or is my diagram wrong? I've heard this theory a lot, and even heard it applied to headset installation, etc. Shouldn't you put both pieces in the deep-freeze?