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@EricMitjans
Hi guys,
I've just bought a brand new 1" threaded fork for a new project.
After installing it, I noticed that the steerer didn't have a vertical filing to fit the keyed washer in between the lock nut and the top race.
My not so brilliant idea was to instead of filing of the steerer to fit the washer, to file off the key of the washer. The problem is that now I can't ride for 3 minutes without the headset getting seriously loose.
My plan now is to buy a new keyed washer, to file the steerer and to pray that the sudden and constant loosing and play in the headset was caused by this.
My question is, how do you do it to file a path off the steerer? Have you guys done it before?
By hand and using a normal file is what comes to mind, but I'd really like to avoid fucking up twice in the same area...
Cheers!
Eric