Originally Posted by
Chombi
Speaking of headsets, here's another question......
Do you really have to use the washer with the tab that comes with moat headsets, or is it safe enough to just use a tabless sapcer instead to avoid damaging your threads later when you remove the lock nut, as this seems to happen a lot as the tab will tend to jam against the threads and mess up things when it tries to turn with the lock nut. It has not happened to me yet, but the next headset I'm about to install (A Miche Primato with needle bearings) have the smallest, rounded edge tab I ever seen on a headset washer and it seems like it's eager to mess up my steering tube threads. I'm really tempted to just grind off the vestigal looking tab....
Chombi
I don't see a problem with grinding the tab off, especially if your adjustable cup has a slight recess where the spacer in question fits in the recess just right. The tabs do have a way of buggering up the threads no matter how careful one is.
If you have a threaded, slotted HS spacer (looks like a BB lockring) you can put that on top of your 'keyless' spacer and effectively lock down the adjustable cup. Then, use 1" threadless spacers to tune the stack height, then install the top Locknut and firm that up.
Alan
