Originally Posted by TiHabanero

On two previous bikes I have set up Chris King no thread headsets on threaded steerers without any trouble using quill stems. At the shop the other day one of the persnickety wrenches laughed and said I was going to ruin the headset or crash from a component failure. I then explained to him why it works the way it is set up using the top nut as the compression force and a clamp down cable hanger as the setting device so that it does not come loose. He was impressed.

Told him it was all I had once and made it work and now have used it on two bikes this way without any issues. Going to do it again on a third bike.