Headset installation

i just bodged cup instalation with the wood and hammer method which worked fine as they weren't particularly tight. problem is, that's obviously no good for the fork crown race as you can't knock it from directly above. fed up with buying specialist tools i'm hardly going to use to put together this budget beater/runaround for miss dooks i devised another half-arsed diy solution:

cleaned all the gunge off round the bottom of where the steerer meets the fork and gave it once over with some fine glass paper then wiped it clean. found that the old headset cups i'd removed earlier fitted neatly over the steerer tube (obviously) and sat perfectly on the top edge of the new fork crown race. had to find some way of pressing down more or less equally on the race to stop it going on pissed, so i used a headset spanner placed flat on the old cup. figured that would provide pressure over about 70% of the circumferance. so i covered it with a bit of off-cut leather bar tape and tapped it down, moving the spanner round 45 degrees after each tap. worked a treat. bodge-tastic.

for the record, this was a cheap headset on a cheap bike. wouldn't have tried it on anything worth any money.

When I installed my new headset (and crown race), I used the old crown race to install the new one. I inverted it and used the hammer/screwdriver method. Worked well, but the old crown race is shot....