U2
Originally Posted by
nlerner
Yeah, Jon, there shouldn't be paint on the steerer surface underneath the crown race. That probably explains why the original race was so tight.
Unclear explanation on my part--I probably need to take remedial expository writing. There wasn't any paint under the crown race originally, and I plan to remove the new paint that's now on the crown-race area before reinstalling it. My secondary question was whether there was also some reason to remove paint from the unthreaded portion of the steerer, as an earlier post seemed to suggest. I'm guessing not, but I may be overlooking something.