Originally Posted by Road Fan

It’s not that I have a pile of tabbed which need to become untabbed. What I have is no chromed washer.spacers, and due to laziness I would prefer to buy untabbed. Because of aesthetics I do not want aluminum or black. My bike has 1” steer tube with 24 tpi threading. I’m using a Campy Record headset because it is what I put on the bike when I first built it from a shopworn but new state.

But your points are well taken - if I have to buy tabbed steel washers, I can file one. Unlike at least one of us, if I can use tabbed washers (i.e. the fork steerer tube is grooved), I can install that without bunging up the fork-tube threading.