How do you add threads to a front fork stem?

[kingfish254]

18 more days. You can make it.
I totally understand the needing to visualize with mock ups. Heck it seems like I had 10 pages of nothing but mock ups when I built Fugsley.

[Craiggo]

Side note: Fugsley is awesome^ just putting that out there really great job! . Also, with that park die set, I don't have $230 lying around to buy a die set that I can probly put $30 into through my shop teacher ordering through school. Thanks for the link though

[LowpowerD]

Yeah, $230 is crazy money. You can get a grip of ratty bikes for that.
All of the vintage bikes I've come across use the 1x24 thread. I got mine through http://www.travers.com/m/ or http://www1.mscdirect.com/cgi/nnsrhm . The cheap Chinese stuff is good for "home" use. After you build 5 o r 6 bikes, it will pay for itself.

[kingfish254]

Thanks for the compliments on Fugsley.

I think Schwinn's typically have 1-1/8" tubes. Most others are 1"

[expjawa]

No, the only two Schwinns I've come across with a 1-1/8" headset is the aluminum framed cruiser I posted elsewhere and my fillet-brazed postwar tandem. All "normal" ones are 1"x24 TPI, like everybody else. It may be the one area that Schwinn didn't monkey with, since they went to different head bearings already.