Cutting Threads on a Reel Seat

Hey,

I've got a nice 9' old-school glass spinning rod, super slow. I liked using it this winter -as if it's stopped. The super slow action, fishing bait, off circles, and with braid, made hook sets, well, sorta "feel right."
Problem is: The old-school reel seats were made for reels with big feet. The 'modern' style 4000 series spinning reels have too small of feet.
Question: Anyone know where to get a tool to cut more threads? The reel seat is alloy. Do I need to chase down a Snap On truck while throwing money to get this tool?
Thanks for taking the time. I should be fishing soon So, instead of all this stuff, I'll be posting fishless fishing reports.

From a machinist point of view I don't believe your going to run a thread die over it and get more thread. I have a few old school rods with alloy seats and I believe the threads are rolled on the sheet metal tube. Its a process that forces a die against the tube and forces the material in to the die so threads can be made on sheet metal tubes. If you were to put a die on the tube the wall is so thin you would cut through the wall and make the seat very weak. Now here is the neat part. It looks like a modified acme thread where the top is flat and the valleys are radius. The cost of a die like that could be 150.00 or so. Try a reel seat clamp or maybe a make up a wedged adapter to go into the old seat and force against the reel seat. Good luck

Or, use an old reel?

reelfish: Thanks. Yup; that's what I was afraid of. Dang.
scallen: Thanks. lol; yup; that's what I was afraid of. Dang.
I used my go too: duct tape, but will come up with something a little better, a clamp of some kind.

I might have an old Mitchell 300-type reel for you.

Classy.

Thanks; that would be classy ; the black reel against the red alloy, against the old school yellow glass. Please let me know what I can do for ya. You're probably pretty flush for stripers, but if you're ever up this way, I have a few spots that are as close to guaranteed stripers as it gets and a couple of private ponds on a winery for bass, cats, bluegill, bla,bla,bla. I'll take ya out anytime. Thanks again.

reelfish: Thanks. Yup; that's what I was afraid of. Dang.
scallen: Thanks. lol; yup; that's what I was afraid of. Dang.
I used my go too: duct tape, but will come up with something a little better, a clamp of some kind.

Or you can uses an old island trick: hose clamp!!! their bamboo rods don't have reel seats...

G-Whiz,
 Yea, I was thinking the same, but knowing me and my bodily luck these days, I'd slice my hand open and have to crazy glue another cut closed. One day soon, my blood is gonna have too high a count of crazy glue and I'm gonna have a heart attack.

Look at a Tennessee style handled bass rod... they just tape the reel to the rod look at bass fishing gear.

Fishim, during this winter, while I used it, I sorta shimmed it with duct tape, and it worked, never really slipped, but, although I'd hate to admit it, the aesthetics of the silver duct tape against the rod I stripped down to bare glass and re-wrapped, kinda bugged me. I'm not 'big' on how things look,,,,if ya saw my wrap jobs, you'd know. But I was trying to avoid the tape, even though it worked just fine.
A kind offer to give me an old school Micthell has solved the problem = a big foot.....