Originally Posted by Kontact

Funny, I have threaded so many forks, including at the local coop just recently. It is strange that someone managed to screw that up for you. It is neither difficult nor requires a particular skillset.

Long before Park steerer cutters, we used an old steel headset part to cut against. Not only was the cut square, but threading the part back off cleaned up the thread ends.



It is quite possible that I just spent all my bike mechanic shop time among highly skilled and well equipped people, but it really amazes me sometimes how little luck folks have getting a standard bike mechanic job done.