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Old 07-14-09 | 02:02 PM
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Originally Posted by AngryScientist
That picture is nice, but somewhat amusingly excludes the most important part of the headset... the bearings.

It looks like it's supposed to be showing a cartridge headset with the bearings pressed in, but that's not so easy for a reader to understand as a cup-and-cone headset, in my opinion, where you actually see the moving parts.

Wikipedia's drawing of a threaded cup-and-cone headset may be easier to understand:
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