The 18x1 mm is the brake threads. Skeetlee, i have had two done by Brian Wick in Albion,il. One was a tac with the metric brake threads but the action/barrel threads are 1" 16 tpi. That was his first tikka build and he assumed, like me, that it would be metric since the brake was. The second one was also 1" 16tpi. Either way he wasn't too worried about threading metric, he turned a 1/2x28 ops inc brake to 18x1 mm so it would screw on the factory metric brake threads.