Originally Posted by
time bandit
Homemade headset presses are great. If you take your time, only do one cup at a time and make sure it goes in straight you will not hurt anything. You will see the headset being pressed in crooked well before permenant damage is created. just take your time.
I just did this last weekend. A couple of times the cups started going crooked, I stopped, tapped them back out with a mallet and started over. On both sides, 3rd time was charm. Two aborted efforts, then 3rd time cups went in straight. Truth be told, on the bottom cup, its was just slightly crooked at one point but I took a chance, gave the bolt a couple of turns and the thing sort of popped straight and in it went. I used a long bolt, two warshers on each side. I had brass fittings handy but turned out my bolt was too short to accomodate the fittings so I ended up just using washers.I read that as long as the washers contact only the flat bottom of the inside of the cup without contacting the beveled part, no worries.