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I had decided to keep them before discovering they may be a risk. I agree the damage is probably as little as it could be and I'm considering my options with them.
They are minimals with king headset but I'm unsure if it was due to the previous headset being loose for a while. I never saw them between the change and can't remember if it was there when I last greased the bearings.
A few sources I found reckon loose headsets are to blame but there seems to be several theories about how it can happen.
I'm considering gluing a metal pipe inside for safety if I decide to keep.
Edit: the top bearing cover is a tight fit on the steerer but it is a good cm above the highest band. The rest of the headset doesn't seem to touch the steerer but I could be misunderstanding how it all works.
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Minimals that’d been used with a king headset?
I noticed the band in your ad.
King headsets are shite for this.
In this case it doesn’t look very significant. If you lay something like a steel rule or Stanley blade up against the steerer it’ll illustrate a lot more clearly how much (or little) wear there is.
I’ve bought an alloy steerer fork with quite a significant groove (also from a King headset) but the price was right in that case and I would definitely be more reticent to buy a carbon fork with any kind of damage.
If the damage to your steerer is as minor as it looks and you can photograph them to show that more clearly then you’ll probably get them sold for a decent amount.