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Re: very interesting, thanks for sharing

Re: thanks fluffy. yes it the uppermost dust seal I was chasing not the inner oil seals. I have one pair of forks that are factory sans dust seal with boots (my good pair) and a fixer upper pair that did have dust seals, but as you say maybe just flick them and run boots. the original seals...

Re: awesome! thanks guys

Anyone know if / where it is possible to obtain new top dust / wiper seals for MAG 21 forks?

Re: that's definately the colour they were sold here in Australia. they had a silver cro mo rear triangle, STX groupset and a quadra fork

Re: I reckon with TLC it will come up great!

Re: wow, awesome example of a first generation zaskar. looks to be all original. suntour right? leave all the original decals on it and just a light rub with autosol carefully around them all. new tyres and cables, lube and job done! it's not often they are as complete as you have it. keep the...

Re: for the huge price, and all the hype....they look pretty ordinary

Re: From memory, shimano had a small pin spanner for those caps, and it was on the other end of a chainring pin spanner. Memory is hazy. I agree though go easy on them, the holes burr easily. Back in the day as a kid I just used needle pliers also...but my caps got chewed up. Are you going to...

Re: Cool, they are great decals indeed! Good colour choice

Re: Cool, sounds nice. Great bike you have there, lots of original spec

Re: Fwiw the Mag 21s look perfect in gold, particularly on that era Zaskar. I'd be leaving them if me

Re: Retro goes mainstream, Bikeradar on the 1992 Epic Ultima Great article !

Re: Vintage MTB Restorations get a bit of 'mainstream' expos nice work!

Clean work ! Nice one! Thanks for sharing

Thanks all. There are a couple of good local frame builders here so that is helpful . Sounds like its a slightly more tricky excercise than I had anticipated, it might be easier just to retain an ahead setup opposed to trying to backwards convert to threadless

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Question: I have a cro-mo GT Bologna fork, threadless, that I am contemplating tapping threads onto for a threaded headset. Is this feasible / safe? Or is the base metal thickness of a threadless steerer too thin to do it safely? Anyone?