Hiya Folks,
My headset has started indexing a noticeable amount and examination shows pits on the crown race.
So it's "false brinneling" or "fretting" or something.

I did a complete service of the steering a year back, but it's an original 1982 headset with caged ball bearings:
This should be a 1" 1981/1982 Tange of some sort - it's a 1982 Holdsworth.
(yes I know the stem is 8mm too high - it's still got 2.5" inside the tube)




And here's the marks on the crown race (bearings are 14 x 5/32" in a cage), marks go all the way round



My short term solution is going to be to replace the caged balls in the bottom bearing with loose balls.
But does anybody think that crown race has had it ?

It looks to me like a new Tange Levin CDS (£20) would fit - stack 33.3 and my max is 36 I think