Originally Posted by TucsonAZ

This is 100% accurate! It's far more work for me to replace any single part in an already used set of unknown origin than it is to just replace the entire thing. Now that I know how this works I could press in a proper fitting set and have it done in 20 minutes or less. I would spend far more time, money, energy searching for a new set of bearings and replacement parts than I would buying a sub $20 headset and calling it done.