Help threading a hole in metal please !

[dickm]

Agreed, very satisfying, but how many of us spend as much time making our tools as we do using them

I know I do!

 

[Digit]

As long as I am making something I'm not overly bothered what it is, at the moment I'm fixing the wife's new hob in and when I am free making parts to fit fork gaiters to my bike.

Roy.

 

[Robbo3]

Sadly the smaller they are the more expensive they become - a set of 12BA (which I am looking out for) on offer at £127!!
Ouch!
Rod

Does this help? I've used them several times in the past with no problems.

- http://www.tracytools.com/index.php?rou ... y&path=1_7

Tracy Tools Ltd
Unit 1, Parkfield Units
Barton Hill Way
Torquay
TQ2 8JG‎
Telephone: 01803 328 603‎
Fax: 01803 328 157

Robbo

 

[chipmunk]

+1 for Tracy Tools.

Note their standard taps & dies are Carbon Steel but they are quality products none the less. HSS are available too though.

Incidentally they're also great for headstock thread taps & in that case Carbon Steel are probably preferred for wood. Also thread chasers.

Jon

 

[Harbo]

Agree about Tracy Tools - I often buy from them at ME Shows.
I was really comparing prices at Cromwells whose taps are UK produced. Presto taps are similarly priced.
And the fact the smaller they are the more expensive they become?
Folkestone Engineering sell Apex stuff £33/set and one on the bay that sells TWT at £28. Both HSS and UK made - I would not want to use CS for the 12BA size - they are minute!

Rod