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A nice strip of beer can around the cup will solve it, wooden board on top of it and smack it right it, check if it is alligned, smack it some more, done. I took my shiming abilities on next level when I discovered aluminum glue tape.
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I'm thinking epoxy/resin or potentially the loctite they use to fit bearings? Some sort of filler/adhesive should give a good, secure and less bodge-ey fix than beer can...?
Thanks for the tip on the forks, it was the colour as much as the shape and clearances that caught my eye...
FredyCro
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@veLLo
The head tube has a bit of a problem on this frame. I don't think it's because it's French (French threaded bb, original forks, which were not useable were French threaded) I experimented with cups from French headsets and there was no difference really... Headset cups fitting is quite loose especially the top one. I used plumber's tape, which allow me to secure the bottom cup ok (it actually had to be pressed in with the tape on...) But there's only so much take you can add acc the top cup just sits there and is removable by hand with no effort. Any quick fix to this problem? (Something like beer can fix or cheap/easy like that, without requiring frame builder intervention, since it's only a beater after all...)