My advice would be not to fuck with anything steel/iron anywhere near the alloy steerer. The PVC pipe is a good trick. You don't need to cap it / hammer it either - just turn the fork upside down and make gravity and momentum do the work by bouncing it a couple of times.if you don’t have a pvc pipe, maybe open a large crescent wrench around the steerer tube and grently tap/work around with a hammer? also heat and liberal amounts of grease.
I’d drop lima beans, any kind of paté, goat cheese, and liver. YUK!4 food drop?
Well then it wouldn't be a hack...Pushing everything together using the star nut sounds like a good way to shorten your bearing life unless you have an old bearing as @HardtailHack suggested.
Crown race tool ftw here.
I do have an old bearing, that is a solid tip.Pushing everything together using the star nut sounds like a good way to shorten your bearing life unless you have an old bearing as @HardtailHack suggested.
Crown race tool ftw here.
Why so? It's constant pressure, not hammering/impact. I'd think just riding puts more stress on bearings than slowly squeezing them together during assembly.Pushing everything together using the star nut sounds like a good way to shorten your bearing life unless you have an old bearing as @HardtailHack suggested.
Crown race tool ftw here.
It's a M6 screw, in mild steel that can apply over 700lb of force.Why so? It's constant pressure, not hammering/impact. I'd think just riding puts more stress on bearings than slowly squeezing them together during assembly.
Ok maybe it could apply that much force but it doesn't have to. It only has to move the bearing onto the bearing seat and overcome the press-fit tolerance.It's a M6 screw, in mild steel that can apply over 700lb of force.
You no doubt can do it but it's pretty cruel, a thrust bearing may be rated for such a force but an ACB wouldn't be.
paging Jack .... Jack to the white courtesy phone.I would think the star nut would creep upwards before that kind of force, but I don't know Jack.
Jack knows.
42 forcespaging Jack .... Jack to the white courtesy phone.
OK Engineers ... how much force would it take to overcome the typical press-fit of a bearing race onto a fork?
Like a lot of descent headsets do.I found my latest Works Components headset came with a crown races that had a gap in it. I pressed it on with my fingers. Works like a champ!
CC 10 comes with a plastic split crown race. Looks awful but didn't detect any subpar performance from the race alone (the terrible bearings that came with it - that's a different story).I found my latest Works Components headset came with a crown races that had a gap in it. I pressed it on with my fingers. Works like a champ!