Having come to the realization that I ride my commuter bike the most out of all my bikes, I slowly upgrade it as parts wear out. I picked up a WTB grease guard headset off of ebay for pennies. Back in the day these things were the jam. In fact all grease guard stuff was/is just cool. If you are not familiar grease guard was the name for bike parts with grease fittings on the outside. And so you could repack your hubs/bb/headset without taking the part apart.
You can repack your headset and flush out all the old bad grease with just a grease gun without removing anything.
Well I installed it, using the Pricepoint headset press, which is really moderately better than just using a bolt and a washer… Everything went in ok. The race was a real P.I.T.A. to install though.
Well the headset was a let down… The “zertz” where you put the new grease in were frozen, the rubber seals which keep the grease in were dry rotted and falling off and most importantly was the the race had rusted.
I took the headset back out, chalked up the $4 ebay purchase as experience and put a cheap cane creek cartridge bearing headset in.