John Thompson wrote:
> Jerome & Elizabeth Moos wrote:
>
>> Tange Levin or the even less expensive Tange Passage fork races will
>> work just fine with a Campy NR HS. There are probably other Tange
>> models that work as well. I've used a Tange fork crown race to adapt
>> a 26.4 NR headset to a fork with a 27.0 crown race, since the
>> Tange's are available in both 26.4 and in 27.0.
> I'd be careful with that, as the Levin race is both thinner (7.6mm vs
> 9.9mm for Campy Record Strada) and ground for a different size bearing
> (Levin uses 5/32" balls; Campy uses 3/16" balls).
Ok, this got my curiosity going, so I dug up some headsets and tried them out. The Levin race does in fact seem to work ok, using a Campy cup and ball retainer, but it does reduce the stack height by a couple millimeters and leaves a significantly wider gap between the cup and race:
http://www.os2.dhs.org/
This would increase the chances of contamination, but other than that it should work ok.
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-John Thompson (john@os2.dhs.org)
Appleton WI USA