Headsets in carbon frames

doggegg
doggegg Posts: 61
edited September 2010 in MTB workshop & tech
Might just be a big girl here and scared of damaging a £2,500 frame, but how do you go about pressing the cups in a carbon frame? Any difference to normal?

I just can't see carbon having the same tolerances when it comes to flex and worried I may feck it up and hear 'that' crack :(

Say your bit, slag me off, laugh at the idiot, but we all have our first carbon frames :wink:

Comments

  • Chunkers1980
    Chunkers1980 Posts: 8,035
    £2,500 frame.

    Go and get a pro to do it for 1% of its value.
  • Herbie The Dog
    Herbie The Dog Posts: 343
    Got to agree with Chunkers there...

    Chances are that your LBS will do it very cheaply (maybe even for nothing) if you buy the headset from them.
  • njee20
    njee20 Posts: 9,613
    There is nothing special about it, but as above, just get a shop to do it!
  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    if you dont have the tools. LBS time.

    which frame is it?
    "Do not follow where the path may lead, Go instead where there is no path, and Leave a Trail."
    Parktools :?:SheldonBrown
  • doggegg
    doggegg Posts: 61
    Carbon Nomad.
    I have the tools ( ok bodges but can buy the tools ) and means, but still a bit paranoid when carbon is involved.
    Already thought about getting the shop to fit it for free but if it's a mail order jobbie ( and it might be ) I won't be there so no assurances some spotty 16 year old didn't wodge it in with a mallet and a wooden plate.

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