ok, so I want to rob the fork off a derelict girls' 24" Collegiate to use on a 20" Scrambler tribute. the head tube on the Collegiate is 6" at the outsides of the races, the Stingray/Scrambler is 4.75", so I wll need to add 1-1.25 inches of thread below what is already there. I saw where in this thread, both @The Renaissance Man and @GuitarlCarl referred to using this little unit or one like it. For that price, I am thinking about buying one and trying it myself. What all do I have to know before diving in? I assume I will also need something like this to make it work?
Then assuming that I successfully thread the steerer further down, I guess will need to cut an equal amount off the top of the fork threads. I vaguely remember doing this with a hacksaw as a kid, following someone's advice to thread the top headset cone on all the way down first so that I could back it off and clean up the threads that the hacksaw boogered up. Is this the right way to do it, either with the headset cone or the die?
thanks for any advice/insight...
Then assuming that I successfully thread the steerer further down, I guess will need to cut an equal amount off the top of the fork threads. I vaguely remember doing this with a hacksaw as a kid, following someone's advice to thread the top headset cone on all the way down first so that I could back it off and clean up the threads that the hacksaw boogered up. Is this the right way to do it, either with the headset cone or the die?
thanks for any advice/insight...