Originally Posted by dokushoka
I asked Bernie this very question when he plugged and welded my fork. He looked at me like I was crazy and said that they all eventually strip. I didn't get it right away, but, if you look at the thickness of the tubing on the steerer tube on a threadless fork and then compare that to a threaded one...
If you're gonna get your fork welded, get someone good. There are not many people I would trust to do this modification...
Ah...great point......thanks. In fact in my particular case, my
threaded steerer tube was waaay too long to begin with so I chopped about 3" off and took it to my LBS for threading. I didn't realize tubing thicknesses were different between the two...
EDIT: On second thought, later on I'm going to look at steerer tubes of spare forks I have laying around to see how significant the diff in tubing thickness is.