HEADSET HELP

[brettnai]

Anyone have any guides to fitting os headsets?
I've just bought a new odyssey headset for my first build and I wanna make sure its fitted correctly.

Cheers

[pickle]

For fitting the cups into the frame, lightly grease up the cups......get some think bits of wood, rest the head tube of the frame onto one piece (making sure the frame is as square as you can....then put the cup onto the head tube, bit of wood on top and hit it as square on as you can.....it should go in....might take a few bangs though.  Turn over and repeat the other end 

[Paulo]

Get the cup square in the frame then wack it with a hammer as hard as you can. 

Well almost...use a plank of wood to hammer against to make sure the cups go in square and so they don't get damaged. A big rubber mallet also works.
 

[kdw712]

or instead of whacking it

get a large diameter bit of threaded bar from wickes or somewhere and make up a cup press
using large diameter washers and slowly tighten up the nuts down the threaded bar
pushing the cups in

or buy a pukka parkes tool if your feeling loaded

[pickle]

Or for about a tenna take it to your local bike shop and they'll do it for you! 

But i always put my own in.....even my Chris King on my MTB! 

[ronnie360]

sledge hammer 

[brettnai]

Cheers for ya help!
I had a nightmare at the weekend trying to fit a bottom bracket, managed to get one cup in no problem using a bit of wood and a hammer but the second cup was a right pig! so took it to my local bike shop who too struggled but eventually managed to do it. I couldnt bare to watch!

Hopefully this headset will be a bit easier!

[pickle]

Some are really tight!  me and my mate couldn't get my one in on my MCS.....It was a right PIG!!   

Had to take it to his garage and use his press in the end.........even that struggled!!!  but it's in now and not moving!!

Just give it a go and if it won't go in, take it to the shop mate 

[stidds]

I agree with Kev, get some threaded bar and some big washers and a couple of nuts and do it that way.  Much safer that the hammer and piece of wood, although not as much fun.

[brettnai]

Cool cheers mate!

talking of Parkes tools, £17 for a flat 30mm spanner for the BB !!!
tools costing me more than the bike so far!

B

[kdw712]

or even a work bench or vice where you can control the angle and pressure
hammering is a last resort really

but as said ^^^   its much more fun in a random somethings gonna break way  

[bof]

I remember my mates old man splitting the bottom bracket on his proliteCC tw5tting in the cups.
If you are really struggling try putting the cups in the freezer overnight ( just move your tuffs and z rims to the side to make room) this should make them contract a little and make them easier to fit, but you have to be quick as they soon heat up again so have all your fitting tools ready and at hand before you take them out of the freezer.