Cheesedisease
Senior Retro Guru
Hello.
Just bought frame + fork with headset. It arrived and the headset stack height is way too large for the forks steerer column.
Took off the parts I can just unscrew; top nut, toothed spacer and toothed race, and there's only about 1cm of threads available above the part of the race that's pressed into the top of the headtube. Seems very short. Can only screw on the top nut a couple of turns, maybe about a third to half way at most, once everythings back on.
Anyway, guess I can't use it?
Very dissapointing as it's a very nice period headset and I was expecting it to fit. Not having to find one was part of the appeal of the frameset! etc etc. I'm also half wondering if the fork has been cut way too short at some point for some reason. Which is a worry as maybe nothing will fit. Hmmm.
Anyway... seems like the frame must have an incredibly small stack height? Can anyone suggest a period headset that I could look for that might fit. I don't have the tools to remove the races from the frame to work out what height I'd need, but any suggestions of low stack headsets would be appreciated.
If anyone can give any advice, much appreciate it. And if so, I can stick a picture up when I get a moment if that might help?
Just bought frame + fork with headset. It arrived and the headset stack height is way too large for the forks steerer column.
Took off the parts I can just unscrew; top nut, toothed spacer and toothed race, and there's only about 1cm of threads available above the part of the race that's pressed into the top of the headtube. Seems very short. Can only screw on the top nut a couple of turns, maybe about a third to half way at most, once everythings back on.
Anyway, guess I can't use it?
Very dissapointing as it's a very nice period headset and I was expecting it to fit. Not having to find one was part of the appeal of the frameset! etc etc. I'm also half wondering if the fork has been cut way too short at some point for some reason. Which is a worry as maybe nothing will fit. Hmmm.
Anyway... seems like the frame must have an incredibly small stack height? Can anyone suggest a period headset that I could look for that might fit. I don't have the tools to remove the races from the frame to work out what height I'd need, but any suggestions of low stack headsets would be appreciated.
If anyone can give any advice, much appreciate it. And if so, I can stick a picture up when I get a moment if that might help?