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PVC Pipe as a Crown Race Setter

I took a note from our very own Jack “Ghost Rider” Sweeney’s article about home made tools. But rather than following his steps whole heartedly, I kinda ghetto-fied it and just used this 2″ PVC pipe cut to about 10″ long.

I needed to set a crown race on one of my forks this morning and used a pipe that I had laying around the garage. I slid it down to the race.

Made sure it was lined up, gave it a good whack with an old seat post, I’m sure a hammer would have worked just fine, but I couldn’t find it. Not bad eh? After setting the race, I installed the fork.

If you check out Jack’s article he’ll even show you how to make your own headset press.