I had someone give me some used barrels that were threaded for a Panda. I have an early Viper that takes a tenon with a slightly smaller pitch diameter, but which is identical to the Panda's in all other respects. In order to be able to try one of the barrels I shopped around and found an adjustable die of the correct diameter and thread pitch. In the process of working with that die, using the pitch diameter of one of my barrels as a reference, I ran into an unexpected issue. The female thread in my action's insert (aluminum action body, steel insert) do not come to a sharp V. The die produces threads that do. When I had the three wire measurement of the barrel that I was given so that it should have fit the action, it did not. I had to adjust the die to produce a smaller pitch diameter to make it work, so much so that I ran out of die adjustment (Remember that the die adjustment spreads the die to produce a progressively larger pitch diameter.) leaving me the retaining screw in the die stock to further close up the die. This is a very imprecise process. For that matter so was the adjustment of the die, all cut and measure. When I finished I had a thread fit that was much much looser than I wanted, so much so that I measured the tenon and calculated the amount of thread overlap to make sure that it was safe. It was. The barrel came to a hard stop when I tightened it on the action, and there were no problems when I fired my usual loads. The funny part is that that barrel is one of my most accurate, sloppy fit and all, but I will leave my speculation as to why that is for another discussion.