Re: [CR]making bike mechanics cringe my approach to headsets

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From: "feldmans" <feldmanbike@yahoo.com>
To: <Wornoutguy@aol.com>, <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org>
References: <ab.108873e8.28f64735@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [CR]making bike mechanics cringe my approach to headsets
Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 18:17:13 -0700


Don't you work in a little shop under the Vigorelli Velodrome in Milan? David Feldman


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From: Wornoutguy@aol.com
To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
Sent: Wednesday, October 10, 2001 5:52 PM
Subject: [CR]making bike mechanics cringe my approach to headsets



> knock out the old one with a long steel rod and a hammer set the new one in
> place and knock it in with a dead blow hammer - used to do this on BMX bikes
> as a kid
> Yes I also made a makeshift tool out of threaded steel rod and large washers
> but still to this day if it is a steel bike with a steel headset the dead
> blow hammer works great if you hit it squarely. Sam D. Between my huge
> cresent wrench and my hammer I don't need much more than duct tape to do
> anything. I also have a torch and a welder just in case
>
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