4 Apr
2002
4 Apr
'02
6:41 a.m.
At 12:31 AM 4/4/02 +0100, Tony wrote:
That's probably why he's throwing them away and buying new ones everytime! I
have some taps that date back to the early 1900s and are still in good condition. Odd
size taps costs a small fortune! I've got some that cost well over $200 each (not that
I paid that much for them). I probably have over $5000 worth of taps alone and they all
fit into cabinet that measures 8 x 12 x 15".
Joe
I personally
have used a die for threading rod only once in the ~30 years over
I've used small metric dies quite a few times for making custom
screwposts for IEEE-488 connectors, etc. It's a pain to use a lathe to
cut short, fine-pitch, threads unless you have to.
which I've owned one. Normally, when I
needed a tap, I simply bought one, for
about half a dollar. Now, I'm not quite ready to give up the tap wrenches I
There's something wrong here. You get taps for 50 cents? Over here I pay
about \pounds 5,00 for normal sized ones and a _lot_ more for very large
or very small ones.
Of course I only buy known name-brand HSS taps. The cheap carbon steel
ones with badly formed threads are not worth bothering with....