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Hahaha, the struggle is real. :21: I'm horrible with adjusting bearings for eternity... Back and forth until its perfect. Now that we're on the subject, this time I'm going to try to install free bearings to the crank hub. I've tried it before but I probably put too many balls in there...

Yep, you know the drill Matti. ;) Some good news, I got the new headset yesterday, along with crazy looking circular reflectors. :D This headset is awesomely slim, takes maybe an inch with all parts included. I also found some nice stuff at work which gave me some ideas. I'll get on it on the...

There's already bunch of photos on my other thread. :D And more coming. This forum rocks!

Oh boy, can't agree more! That's the thing about bikes, more you tinker with them, more you'll fall in love with them. Goes both ways, its hard to sell/give away/scrap them, dealing with broken parts is pain in the .... I guess its part and parcel with this hobby. Reminds me that I have to do a...

I checked that out earlier, to me it looks exactly the same as the one which came with the fork, but as they're not specifying the measurements, I can't really tell. But it seems strange to sell the same part separately, I think this part is nearly impossible to break or something like that. I...

Yea, I wish I had noticed it before I placed my order.... Its funny, they have this as a separate part, why not standard? Its another $$€€ option if I need to get more thread visible. But I don't think its necessary. Slimmer headset and about 8mm slice off the upper part of the frame will...

That's a funny thing about the old Scandinavian brand headsets, the nut is huge. Very sturdy too I might add, but I think its overkill. Just like every other part, the bearings are humongous. Interesting thing is that my 1951 Pyrkijä had way slimmer headset, all the parts were, including the...

Thinking things over, I'll go and modify the frame too if I need to, that's easy to do, just need to be careful cutting just enough and not too much. I mean what bad could it do as long as the welds for the horizontal tubes are intact? Specially when there's no heating or anything involved. The...

Btw, the Humpert stem I got is awesome. Its NOS from 70's-90's era, no idea of the exact age. They even put decent lube on the screws, I can tell the craftmanship is top shelf quality right away. So far all the parts seem great, excluding the issue with the fork. EDIT: Ok, last thing I'm gonna...

The issue is that the frame tube is too long for the bearings and the spring attachment to fit, there is not enough thread on the fork for all that stuff. There's about 7-10mm too little thread there and even that wont really help a lot as the spring goes in an insane angle which makes it very...

Another day that gave me just bad mood and dirty hands. I can't get a bleepin' simplest things done... I don't have the tools for this stuff. I tried and tried to think how to make that adapter piece to fit that darned fork and I can't get it done like this. I thought of using an old saddle...

Oh yea... Those were the days. Seeing certain bike tracks or the bikes lying about could mean some good friends being around or some times the neighborhood "gang" of older kids who are best avoided to not get beaten up. Remember riding to see if a friend is home only to notice his bike missing...

Its a learning experience every day. And that's all I got from painting the stripes on the rims today. Experience. There's a compatibility issue, there's not only wrinkling, but removing the tapes tears the spray paint off in huge flakes. So I'll have to grab sandpaper and remove all that flaky...

Matti, there's at least two people there who do welding from time to time. So I might have someone to ask for help, I'm just trying to figure this out myself first. I got an idea which might work. Perhaps I could make an adapter piece between fork screw and the holder. Could that holder be kept...

Got to love the northern climate... Ours is very much the same as most of Canada. Decent time for outdoors painting is only few months with some luck. I'm not a rich guy, I don't have a decent workshop, let alone a place to paint indoors. But I work at city maintenance, with little luck there's...

I have pretty much solved the fork issue, but not as smoothly I would wish and there's still things that need something done. There were several issues. 1. Bearings + cups take so much space its insane, the part which goes on the fork does not fit all the way down as its not designed for this...

The rims were sand blasted clean and I have already painted them with primer and glossy black paint. I'm fairly certain I touched the rim with oily fingers as I was taping it. (Yea, being careful and all that. :rolleyes:) Another issue was that I had to do the painting outdoors as I don't have...

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This is what I thought about, I can easily get nylock nuts to use in the fork. I think coupled with nylon washers they should work well. Another idea is to have longer bolts and have two nuts at each end to lock them in place. The bike in the above picture isn't mine btw, I just copied that...

Yea, its one of these days when nothing goes right and its just felt wrong since the morning. Hmmph... I'm trying to work on the bike at weekends when I have some daylight hours to do it. I don't have decent workspace so I got to do a lot outdoors or in a cramped space with bad lighting so...