There is a family of products, horribly expensive, that are a filled epoxy for restoring worn ways. Scrapable but very hard. I think that they had a product that worked as a filler to restore headstock height and bearing. In your case Devcon or JB Weld should do the job. Rather than wrestling with shims I would consider tapping four setscrews, say 1.0 x 6 or 1/4 x 20 to provide a simple and easy way to set the level of the headstock. Once you have it as perfect as you can stand then use the epoxy filler, being sure to ensure bonding only to the headstock. Don't glue things down!? ?Bill
On Mon, Dec 18, 2023 at 5:40?AM CBJessee-N4SRN <
cbjesseeNH@...> wrote:
Bill,
Your filled-epoxy suggestion got me thinking. I wonder if what I thought was paint under the headstock was the vendor adding epoxy to correct an overgrind? It was in the right place to have shimmed properly. I brushed that out with a bronze brush and solvent. ?
After another thorough clean and tightening the left front nut first, I'm down to 0.005" high, so shimming is definitely needed.
Bret
