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[SteelWheels]

 As you know taping aluminum is always a challenge. Keeping the chips from loading the tap, knowing this I clean the flutes out as I go.

Have a reasonable Tap & Die set, 20-year-old Eastwood, many times better than the Craftsmen offering.

So, I finally broke a tap 6-32. The question is, does anyone have a source you would recommend for buying a replacement?

Quality is the number 1 priority, price is secondary, third, and last.

Cheers
Pep

[Elroy]

anyone have a source you would recommend for buying a replacement?

Quality is the number 1 priority, price is secondary, third, and last.

Travers, MSC, Grainger would all have what you're looking for

https://www.travers.com/

https://www.mscdirect.com/

Maybe McMaster-Carr but they don't reveal brands or sources.

[SteelWheels]

anyone have a source you would recommend for buying a replacement?

Quality is the number 1 priority, price is secondary, third, and last.

Travers, MSC, Grainger would all have what you're looking for

https://www.travers.com/

https://www.mscdirect.com/

Maybe McMaster-Carr but they don't reveal brands or sources.

Thanks agree Travers, MSC, Grainger...

[jabberwoki]

Greenfield... there is no substute.

[SteelWheels]

I reactivated the MSC account and had forgotten about it.

Steve Greenfield looks interesting. There are lots of choices, and quality is there for sure.

Beyond my needs, however, did Bookmark it just in case. Could not find prices, thinking buying a tap & shipping would not be a reasonable choice for now.

I paid 800 bucks for the same 115-bit set that could have been purchased from HF.

Point being I find a need for a Tap & Die set, Greenfield will be one to check out especially if I were to use the mill to cut some treads.
Thanks
Pep

[TexasT]

https://www.ebay.com/itm/305454821163?_skw=tap+6-32&itmmeta=01JMK2QZ06BR968NMCSWARECK4&hash=item471e86af2b:g:k5AAAOSwsS9l9GYZ&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAA4FkggFvd1GGDu0w3yXCmi1eplEPSubus%2BocyMC1emmjM1JYFgGDc2Ew8s90C4lYARtuhxhIBMdJ%2BhewCwbfYI3o2e53yuaWYiFfDv8%2FAPWpUwirSrasushy%2B%2FlOItidT7sWv4TqyqcafXAoMGcrRvjNiUAuN9H0Bb7X9qBJ%2B1VguGmSvuqSBzbN7WLkAxRu8zjh7Ws%2FBbjSYrA5l1zBl1V8pcbik%2FuOtt%2B9Uw%2FGq8vYirGqemLmpjsDFk8C7HZmVK7R45sTj8UMn8ZYIJ6XB1D1p6w91ddZwyv9UoLM0A5ea%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR6bw3-Kk

Maybe a little long, but free shipping!

[AbiggerGarage]

That is what a machinist friend called a pully tap to me.  He had me go to one of our local Graingers when we needed one to fix a shaft on an 80 quart mixer.

[Elroy]

That is what a machinist friend called a pully tap to me. 

Elroy told me it all comes down to what you're trying to accomplish. Are we talking about tapping a blind hole in stainless or a through hole in brass? Are we looking to get max tap life in a high volume production application or the last word in precision for a one off hole. Are we looking at a hand tap or a power driven tap ? Thick material or thin?

You go and break a tap in aluminum ............ ??

dull?

tap drill?

loaded flutes?

miss aligned?

there are a lot of variables...........that's why there're various taps available..........you got know the application to make a good recommendation.

[Uncle Buck]

I think Greenfield became Chicago Latrobe? I have a lot of CL, but also some NOS (drill bits, not T&D) Morse brand, old USA stuff. I have a bunch of old brands that at the moment escape me, all of which always worked in whatever kind of material I was trying to thread.