I have a new Soul frame, a headset, a big hammer and some wood.
Impatient to get building, but have my reservations about hammering the headset in.
What would you do?
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I use a bench vice, one cup at a time. Never had an issue.
Wait and buy/make a headset press.
Did minene tonight, new rigid fork on the singlespeed*. 32mm plastic piping and a mallet worked a treat.
*(I seem to have become niche all of a sudden)
Hmm - a good old search of the shed turned up a 6" G-clamp.
That might do it.
does it need facing?
No, frame's faced and chased, courtesy of the nice folks at 18bikes.
I own a headset press, but it couldn't deal with the last 2 headsets I fitted, so they got Precision Rubber Malletted. Just don't do too much at a time, and keep it even, can't really go wrong unless you're a monkey.
Would go with rubber mallet. If you dont like the idea of hitting the rim of the cups then three external bottom bracket spacers (those little plastic rings that you didnt use but never threw out) will sit on the bearing surface and give you a guilt free area to hit. They do keep jumping out but who can blame them.
Impatience (and the clamp) won out. Job done. Used a wee plastic stopped that was in the seat tube to protect one end, and a wooden picture frame at the other. And no hammering to wake the kids.
Wood and hammer all the time.