seanile

bad luck and carelessness right here...

took a frame to get repainted today, and I was carrying it in my bag as just a bare frame (no headset, nothing) and I must've laid my bag down too hard because now the bottom of the head tube is slightly ovalized and I can't get the cup back in.

suggestions on how to straighten it out?

i feel like i can approach this as if i'm making an ovalized ring circular again, like by maybe finding a steel pipe that fits snuggly through the headtube and hammering it through to reshape it.
but i don't know the internal diameter of the head tube, it's a basic 1 1/8, so if you might know a dimension that'd be great.