Originally Posted by
vintagerando
I picked up this fork on ebay. The headset cups were strategically left on, hiding the damage. The damage goes all the way around; more extensive than the photo shows.
Fixing this would be expensive, correct? I had communications with Seller prior to buying; i got the feeling he know little to nothing about bikes. The damage looks shiny and fresh. I think he just took a pipe wrench and forced the headset off. I have to decide if I want to do a return.
The bit of reading i did, it appears to be a bigger job than I could do. The threading metal to stripped right off in places; no metal to re-thread.
Any thoughts?
...have you tested it in the frame you want to use it in ? If the head tube and stack height of your chosen headset in use is enough shorter than the bike it came out of, you should be able to just avoid the portion with the damaged threads, and shorten the fork steerer a little bit. But yeah, I can't tell whether the threads are damaged, or you just have a bunch of aluminum clogging things up in there.
Clean the threads up with a wire brush and see where you're at then.