so where is 'world cup'? I was only in coles once and the customer service turned me off. I think you only solution might be to have the fork lenghtened. I have seen, well sent this out, for customers in the past. the best idea would be to cut your fork a few inchesbelow the threads and have a new tube welded on with threads about .5 to 1" longer than you have now.

I should have gone into frame building and repair.

Isn't World Cup just off 15 where it intersects with the Gettysburg Pike. Should be right in your hip pocket from Camp Hill.

The customer service at Coles is like a Monty Python routine its so bad. I am pretty slow to anger, but the people who work there work so assiduously to piss customers off that I have banned myself from ever going there. I am afraid I am going to yell something regretable at them. Yikes.

If you ever get farther west, give Merv's a whirl. It is partway between Carlisle and Shippensburg. Merv is the best.

jim

Snugging the headset down to bed in races may not be a good idea, specially if the races are a tight fit (depending on the quality of the reaming and facing job done on the head tube and fork crown) on this bike. You might end up brinelling the races before the bike even turns a wheel on the road if you use the headset top nut to "snug it down". A quick trip to the LBS with the proper head race installation tools may help you avoid further problems with your headset in the future.
If the top nut would not even catch the threads you most likely have a fork that was either cut down to short at one time or came from smaller frame. You can try and just not use the washer.spacer between the top race and top nut to gain about a couple of mililmeters or you can try and find a headset with a lower stack height......... although I think stack heights do not really vary that much from the typical 38mm from one headset brand to another

Chombi
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Melt brass into the damages area to build it up, then cut new threads into the brass. Brass isn't as strong as steel, but it's plenty strong to hold the locknut.