install a headset?

[mauricer]

is that difficult? do you need special tools to do it?

 

[Harryburgundy]

I have helped a mate just bang the cups in with very basic tools (lump of wood and rubber mallet), and its done the job, but I always take mine to my LBS to have done properly with the special tools...should only cost £12ish and saves knackering a decent headset.
I'm sure others with have their own ways.
HB

 

[stew-b]

ive fitted all my frame cups with a rubber mallet ,crown race is more tricky...

 

[robins]

i use a bench vice with wood on either end and slowly press it in evenly
never had a problem doing it this way and saves hammering it it.

 

[daveaasmith]

I've got a long piece of threaded rod (£1.49 from B&Q), with a piece of wood....bit like this....

 

[stew-b]

so 3 easy ways to fit the cups but how do other people fit the crown race to the fork?

 

[Tallpaul]

so 3 easy ways to fit the cups but how do other people fit the crown race to the fork?

Old vacuum cleaner pipe and a rubber mallet.

 

[novekili]

To fit the crown race I use an old Klein hairset bearing, I put it on the crown race and gently tap it with a rubber mallet, using a screwdriver. It sounds like a sure way to index the crown race but it has always worked (and I substitute the crown race quite often because I frequently change from rigid to suspension forks).
However, sliding a tube of the same size of the crown race on the steerer and use it to tap the crown race itself is probably safer.

 

[daveaasmith]

I work slowly all the way around it, tapping down with a piece of wood.

I love my piece of wood

 

[gibbleking]

i remember using a hammer and a block of wood to put the headset races in my new sannie(paid 1200 quid for the frame) bak in the mid 90s,s..most nerve wracking 5 min of my life.....just dont trust anyone else to do it..... :?