Originally Posted by
FBinNY
Unfortunately threadless systems have been out long enough that a decent percentage of mechanics today don't know how to properly thread a fork, even if the tool is still there under layers of dust.
That's a good point. I wouldn't think you'd want to pay for a mechanic's first fork thread job. Everything might go OK, but this is the kind of thing that, once messed up, can't be easily fixed. I own the die but I wouldn't volunteer to do more than add a few additional threads. And I wouldn't even talk about starting threads from scratch.