I have a NOS set of LG Lites.

The Bear Trap II fork race seems to not be too happy to go onto the shim where it belongs.

I was thinking of filing the shim to put a slope on the edge to then press the race onto, or file out the center of the race...

Thoughts?

I hear that !!!! had 2 regular LG and of the hundreds of bearing races in my parts bin N O N E , no not one that fit !!!! I had a machinist friend make me some .........

I use a carbide tipped pneumatic grinder for small items like that. works great. you can maintain a very round circle if you keep steady pressure and keep rotating the tool around the circle ID.

I have one of those. That is a prime idea.

A trick that I learned for increasing the outer diameter for "once piece" chainring adapters for 3 piece cranks was to run the grinder, dremel whatever you have outside the ring, or inside the race in this case and let it spin as it grinds barely holding it so that it will take material out of the inside evenly. I'm not sure how well this would work on steel, but for aluminum it's great. Maybe wear a glove and give a bit more pressure holding while the fork race spins?

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do you have the right size race? they could be either 26.4mm or 27.0mm. i've seen SE forks in both sizes (original condition).