The freezer!

[pickle]

who ever said putting bearing cups in the freezer helps to get them in easier??  i stuck my headset cups in mine for a week........got everything ready, then whipped em out and expected an easy job............20 minutes later and a lot of banging with hammer and wood i still have a GT Mach one with no headset installed and a nice looking black headset still in it's box! 

fooking poxy bearing cups!!   

[pickle]

can't go on ebay at work.......how much are they mate?

[sonic-1]

frezer trick works for me every time but i use hair dryer on the frame as well !!!!! hot frame + frozen cups = fitted headset
allthough that tool looks like a good investment

[OrgasmDonor]

i always use the freezer method and it works fine but they dont just fall in they just dont require whacking as much, anyway i was putting headcups in my elf last weekish and dug the cups out of the freezer to fit, normally they start stickin to my fingers as they so cold but they didnt so.......for some insane reason i put my tounge on it to see if it was really cold (i know, i know WTF was i thinking) i just thought id flick it really quickly with the tip of my tounge, fook me it was like a skin magnet it just sorta sucked loads of my tounge towards it, i fookin shat myself, now theres a nice bit of tounge on my bearing cup and my mouth was fookin yuckin for days

i wasnt gonna tell anyone as i was angry as fook with myself when i did it, but ye have ta laugh dontcha

[CD17]

i always use the freezer method and it works fine but they dont just fall in they just dont require whacking as much, anyway i was putting headcups in my elf last weekish and dug the cups out of the freezer to fit, normally they start stickin to my fingers as they so cold but they didnt so.......for some insane reason i put my tounge on it to see if it was really cold (i know, i know WTF was i thinking) i just thought id flick it really quickly with the tip of my tounge, fook me it was like a skin magnet it just sorta sucked loads of my tounge towards it, i fookin shat myself, now theres a nice bit of tounge on my bearing cup and my mouth was fookin yuckin for days

i wasnt gonna tell anyone as i was angry as fook with myself when i did it, but ye have ta laugh dontcha

 

Yeah I always use the fezzer & boiling water for the bit that goes on the forks, it helps 

[rob]

Buy one of these, they're great & a sound investment if you are doing few...

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Park-Tool-HHP3-Home-Mechanic-Bearing-Cup-Press-Cycling_W0QQitemZ140013464664QQihZ004QQcategoryZ109122QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem

Cheers,

Bru 

I use a bit of threaded rod some big washers and 4 17mm nuts works just like the ebay tool but only cost £5

[pickle]

i think that's the way i'll be going! 

[MartyC]

i think that's the way i'll be going! 

Rob, I have a headset bearing press you can borrow if you want

[darkersomeday]

so you go o all that trouble to build a nice o/s bike then just pound away at the cups with a hammer! 

if you want to do the job properly just buy a cup press,
or do like i did years ago and make your own,

a length of threaded rod,2 1cm thick plates drilled to accept the rod and two bolts, voila!

[dannyboy]

how big is yer fookin hammer i got a lump hammer on mine worked a treat you need to swing from over your head

[lazychubs]

cant believe you licked the cup and it stuck to your tounge and owned up to it lol

[lazychubs]

as cheered me up after my crap day lol
dumb and dumber springs to mind

[lazychubs]

yeah im stil larfing
and thanks bloody red light camers cheats
spesh as i stopped and reversed lol

[login_user]

I made a set of those bearing cup press's at work, they make life so easy. 

[Gashead]

It's like a battery and a womens arse - you know you will end up sticking your tongue in it at some point 


The funny thing about this thread is - when I sold Pickle the Mach One - I said he could keep the headset and buy me a new one !

Tight fisted git 

[aerostylie]

Pickle.....get yourself a new freezer

I was a bit dubious about the freezer trick, I can't remember who mentioned it to me but tried it for the first time a couple of weeks ago and both the BB and headset cups went in a treat Only left em in the freezer for about 10 minutes and only needed a slight coaxing to get em in, jobs a good un..........ner ner ne ner ner 

Paul

[login_user]

It's like a battery and a womens arse - you know you will end up sticking your tongue in it at some point 


The funny thing about this thread is - when I sold Pickle the Mach One - I said he could keep the headset and buy me a new one !

Tight fisted git 

Did you know on average 3 people a year die from electric shock in the UK from sticking there tongue on a 9v battery!!  


I'll get me coat  

[Gashead]

Guess my tongue goes in the right place then 


I'll get my coat too 

[brass monkey!]

i use a mallet to get mine in,.......and for headset cups too !! LOL !!

[darkersomeday]

It's like a battery and a womens arse - you know you will end up sticking your tongue in it at some point 

 

[pickle]

It's like a battery and a womens arse - you know you will end up sticking your tongue in it at some point 


The funny thing about this thread is - when I sold Pickle the Mach One - I said he could keep the headset and buy me a new one !

Tight fisted git 

YOU TOLD ME YOU WANTED IT BACK!!   

should've just told you i couldn't get the dam stem out     i have a lovely black headset sitting in pieces just waiting to be used 

[Gashead]

I wanna blue one 

[pickle]

tough!  you're getting a chrome GT epoch one instead......whether you like it or not!!

 

[OrgasmDonor]

i thougth thith thread wath dead when i pothted and wouldnt be theen, iths not ath bad ath it wath buth i had thum thinder toffee yethterday and that wath a huge mithtake