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russmeyer
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@Scrabble
I think I jinxed this project a few pages back when remarking that building it up post stripping to test it out, had been as smooth a build as i'd ever done.
Since them, this has been a bit of a pig.
Paint took ages. Mainly through lack of time and conditions. I do it all in the back yard, so with the clocks changing and the weather turning for the worse, it took me loads longer than I thought.
Then, with all the paint done last weekend, the new headset decided to play hard ball. Crown race was a fucker to seat, but it got it on eventually having bodged the propper the tool, rather than the tippy tap flat head screwdriver method thats worked for me to date.
Then, as anyone who watched the AQA thread may have spotted, I couldnt get the bottom cup to sit flush. Turns out the flange is about 3mm deeper and the headtube not brilliantly reamed.
Anyway, bashed it out, filed a few mm off and cleaned up inside the headtube. Got some proper big and chunky metal washers for my headset press, and presto in it finally went.
Stuck the other bits on and here it is: nearly ready to ride. Shame I've got a cold and no enthusiasm. Next hellish job - mudguards, which was the entire point of this build.
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