Headset press - I need one

Does anyone happen to have a headset press that I could maybe borrow for a few hours tomorrow night? If it arrives (which it should) I'm picking up a new headset tomorrow and so don't really want to use the old hammer and block of wood technique to get it on. I could pick up after work (around 6.30) and drop off later tomorrow night, or on Saturday anytime. Or if you're not busy I could hang around and do it there and then (you'd get to see my very poor impression of a mechanic).

I know this is a bit cheeky as I know a grand total of none of you, but thought it was worth a shot anyway. There's some beer in it for you...

Cheers for even considering it - if you have ;)

Toby

You could improvise your own with a threaded rod and some nuts and washers.

toby, if you don't mind the weight, you could head down to sunday toolbox at sheeps and smallbrownbikes on appropriately enough sunday morning, over in east london, pretty sure, they'll have a headset press, they seemed to have everything else, the last time I was there.
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You could improvise your own with a threaded rod and some nuts and washers.

That is what I have always done with some old inner tube to protect the cups.

block a wood and a hammer :)

block a wood and a hammer :)

+1 - worked for me for years.

I really need to get it on there ASAP as my current one is on the wrong side of fucked and I want to do a fair bit of riding on Saturday, so I might have to opt for the wood & 'ammer approach - if I had a bit more time / less concern about my current headset failing whilst going down hill I'd hit up the Sunday morning fix (thanks for the link btw).

When you fit the cups into the frame do you grease the up a bit, or go in dry? ;)

grease 'em up baby!!

block a wood and a hammer :)

hehe - like clockwork!

:)

When you fit the cups into the frame do you grease the up a bit, or go in dry? ;)

...yeh we have one here.
welcome to come and use/borrow it if you are over this way

You could improvise your own with a threaded rod and some nuts and washers.

I made one of these that has worked on at least two headsets. Cost about a five or six quid from B+Q. I still have enough threaded rod left to make at least two more.

matt's a hero, cheers man.

think maybe you could use a large vice and a couple of suitable sized half inch sockets. wind it in slowly.

any chance i could grab the use of this? or should i htfu and block and hammer it?

Last time I did it I used this technique: ame="http://forums.mtbr.com/showthread.php?p=1190007" Homemade Headset Tools... - Mtbr.com Forums[/ame]

It was still hard to get it going straight, though. Not for the faint hearted!

Block of wood and a hammer and/or an old pair of forks with a long steerer and some washers to fit.

does someone want to hold my hand through this?

I just use a G-Clamp with a piece of ply of cut beween each clamp surface and the headset cups to prevent denting them as the surface of the clamps is slightly textured.

Simple :-)

i used a hammer, an argos catalogue, the yellow pages, and a big mug of HTFU.

done.

I used the following bits from Wickes to make a headset press:

threaded rod: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Nuts-and-Washers/Threaded-Rod/invt/511123
stud connectors: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Nuts-and-Washers/Studding-Connectors/invt/156645 (bit bigger than normal bolts)
Washers: http://www.wickes.co.uk/Nuts-and-Washers/Steel-Round-Repair-Washers/invt/510150

You may need to get different sized washers depending on the cup size. Also, use three or four at once. I only used two on one side and the force started to bend them...

I have spare new M10 threaded rod and nuts if anyone wants.
You will need only washers + HTFU.
PM me if you want it - only costs a couple of quid from B&Q, but the rods come in pairs..

A large enough stone dropped on the cup should knock it in...