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I had an old raleigh MT600 MTB with some shocks on it, and converted it over to SS. I simply ordered a Surly Rigid 1x1 fork ($60 at my LBS), and swapped the crown races. If you ran shocks on your MTB, the Surly Rigid 1x1 will be a direct replacement in terms of axle to crown height. You can also order the fork with our without disc brake tabs if you wanna use your old front brakes.
*you may have to cut down the fork steerer tube though*
The Surly 1x1 fork is 1 1/8 threadless and his bike is 1" threaded. He's just gonna have to get one of them 1" threaded Tange jobbers.