Originally Posted by
gugie
I've had this happen as well. In addition, I've threaded a couple that, for some reason was not centered, so the threads on one side were very deep, and barely cutting on the other. I've lost faithin my cheapie thread cutter as a result. I'll be shopping for a one with a guide sometime this year.
I've been mostly successful with it in the past, but ruining a steerer on a fork is catastrophic.
Would love to hear from [MENTION=184012]Doug Fattic[/MENTION] on this as well for a third opinion.
[MENTION=381793]gugie[/MENTION] .....I should have mentioned the guide. My VAR 40B came to me without a guide. A few months ago, my LBS wanted to thread a fork that had no threads to get it started. 'Concerned about getting die started straight....and staying straight....I machined a guide with an ID that barely slid over the 1" steerer. Clearance was on the order of .001" on diameter and it did the job. Absent the guide, it is easy for me to visualize the experience you had where the threads were deeper on one side than the other.
Dean