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I reckon you need to file the washer so it can sit slightly over those tubes (ie move the circles up a few mm).
Also there are ways of drilling straight holes without a drill press but its trickier if the thing you're drilling isn't flat, which this isn't. But then its also hard to drill straight holes on non-flat things with a drill press. Clamping is everything.
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I’ve got a couple of those washers and that’s what I was hoping to use. The problem is that the way the tubes are welded together at the crown doesn’t leave loads of room for it. I’ve drawn what I mean: 6mm hole and then I’m guess about 4mm of washer around that (don’t have one to hand but it looks about right). The drawing shows the highest one of those washers will sit on the fork before it fouls on the welds. It doesn’t leave much material below the hole.