Question, is there any reason I can’t get threads cut into a threadless 1" fork and use it with a normal threaded headset and quill stem?
Thanks
That would depend on the thickness of the steerer tube.
Des
And why bother, when you can still get 1" threadless headsets and stems…
Whoever owns the cutting tools is likely to charge you a lot of dosh. That is a lot of wear to be putting on the cutter and it isn’t very easy to start a new thread.
I’ll set 'em up and you knock 'em down… 
He’s on a roll 
beacuse I have a nice quill stem that would give me the bar position I need and cutting thread may have been cheaper than a decent new threadless stem. Plus all the asthetic and functional simplicity advantages of a quill stem.
As I couldn’t find anything on Sheldon Brown (RIP) I though I’d see if the collective wisdom of LWAB (oh and the rest of you) could rattle off some critical difrenet spec or practical flaw in my plan.
Thanks all.
I had it done a couple of years ago, cost me $25 for Paconi to do it (incl a slice for the LBS bloke who drove it down there to wiggo, before Paconi went retail). It was a pretty meaty steel steerer though.
Can you swap the fork out? I, personally, wouldn’t thread it unless i ‘had’ to (for a dreambike* or something).
*like making that Ti Grammo fit that Tommasini TT bike.
I’m surprised Paconi did it that cheap. $25 doesn’t even cover half the labour, let alone the wear on the tool. If that is the price, there is nothing stopping you, the dimensions should be the same (double check though).
Don’t cut the thread longer than you need, you don’t want the wedge splitting the threaded column. The thread will taper at the start of the cut though. Hopefully they’ll use a sharp cutter and lots of cutting fluid.
correct me if i’m wrong, but are there two different tools that can be used on threaded forks? ie, 1 that cleans up threads, and one that cuts new ones?
if someone has the right tool (the one for cutting new threads) then it shouldnt be too much of an issue and shouldnt wear the tool much.
unless there is, indeed, only one tool. and that is me. thinking there were two. :?
I only know of one type of tool (except for the big machine at the Tange fork factory…). Low quality thread cutters (soft, poor tolerances) are ok for cleaning threads, high quality ones are ok for cutting new threads. Campag, Cobra, et al are all something similar to this Park FTS-1
http://www.parktool.com/images/products/productimages/hirezimages/FTS-1.jpg
FWIW, I think lots of cutting tools in bike shops are used until the cutting surfaces are completely knackered, instead of being sharpened or replaced when they are starting to dull.