Just wondering really... have you seen them for sale ready made?
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Does anyone sell 'homemade' headset presses commercially?
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Posted 2 years ago #
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someone had some on the classifieds a while back.
but with 'proper' cyclus ones only £30 or so it's not really a product you can sell a 'bodge' version of for much.
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park do a homemade one.
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do they?
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ditto, I bought a homemade headset press for £25, the headset press bits have been CNC'd form aluminium with steps at 1.125", 1" for headsets headsets and 1.125" headtubes (1.5"?, 1" headtubes ate 1.125") to guide them in straight, all the other hardware is stainless steel and very chunky (must be 16mm at least threaded bar) and its not jst cut from a length, all the edges are smoothed off and radiused.
One of my friends had a homeade one and couldnt understand why I'd bought one, then I watched him spend the best part of half an hour trying to get his two bits of rusty steel plate and m6 threaded bar to pull his headset in straight. I can change a headset in 5min flat with mine! Also been used to press in hub bearings on the car so its paying for itelf!
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B&Q and some wood. If you have the cash and think you'll use it several times then buy the £30 one.
Homemade are obviously not as good (unless you spend some time making it) but they do the job, just got to take your time.
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I assume you are not referring to my favoured method using a mallet and a piece of wood
To be fair, it has worked perfectly in all the steel, alu and carbon frames I have built up.
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To be fair, it has worked perfectly in all the steel, alu and carbon frames I have built up.
Ditto, but I'm not sure I'd recommend it
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rubber mallet and wood and thump and a crowbar for extraction. I think I can do about 10 bikes and drink a brew whilst you do your one in 5 mins with your press.
Does not work on car bearings but the hammer has multiple uses
If money was no object I guess I would buy one but it is not in any sense necessary - unles syou swap bikes as often as Ton do why do we need onePosted 2 years ago # -
i have had good results with those joiners clamp things.
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LBS charged me £2 to fit my last headset. Got to go through A LOT of headsets before a tool pays for itself...
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£2... I wish. Best price I've had in London was £20
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I got one of those wiggle ones with a £5 off voucher - very pleasant and easy to use. Headset fitting is £15 at my LBS and I've used it once already.
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I had endless problems with a headset that ate bearings - I'd tonked it into place with a hammer and a bit of hardwood. Took it out and refitted it with a press and it never gave trouble again, I reckon because the two cups are now parallel...
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i bought a cyclus one. i will use it at the weekend for the 4th time. however i've lent it to so many peeople/ received so many pints it's paid for itself in free beer.
can't say fairer than free beer!
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2 bikes, 2 headset each, £10-£15 at most LBS's, PITA with a hammer IMO almsot as bad as getting a SFN in without the £3 bit of metal that makes it easy.
At least one of my frames is ridiculously tight, some frames I've done just by tapping it in with a block of wood, but this one took the combined efforts of two of us to extract the original headset. One steadying the big bit of betal being used as a drift (we destroyed the extractor by foldingit inside out!) and the other whielding the number 2 perswader (number 1 is too big to swing indoors). I woried ofr the headtube welds!
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