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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 1101573" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p>I wouldn't touch a gun with a $17 tap. If you have the room use a quality taper 2 flute tap from MSC. Your in the ballpark at $35 and up. They cut so nice and last. Those sub $20 taps are for scratching threads into a mild steel home shop project. If it doesn't clean up and I doubt it will take it to someone with a mill and a DRO and have the holes milled out and corrected for straight and spacing then taped in the mill. If you try it with a drill bit, the bit will just follow the old holes and never end up where they are supposed to be. </p><p> </p><p>Bottom taps are strictly for cleaning up the last threads in a blind hole that is already tapped. You cannot cut new threads with one. Not nice threads anyway and you stand a good chance of breaking it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 1101573, member: 1290"] I wouldn't touch a gun with a $17 tap. If you have the room use a quality taper 2 flute tap from MSC. Your in the ballpark at $35 and up. They cut so nice and last. Those sub $20 taps are for scratching threads into a mild steel home shop project. If it doesn't clean up and I doubt it will take it to someone with a mill and a DRO and have the holes milled out and corrected for straight and spacing then taped in the mill. If you try it with a drill bit, the bit will just follow the old holes and never end up where they are supposed to be. Bottom taps are strictly for cleaning up the last threads in a blind hole that is already tapped. You cannot cut new threads with one. Not nice threads anyway and you stand a good chance of breaking it. [/QUOTE]
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