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Old December 25, 1999, 01:55 PM   #8
John Lawson
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Join Date: August 28, 1999
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A really high quality tap set consists of a taper, plug and bottoming chamfer set. Most hardware stores carry plug and possibly bottoming configurations. My favorite kind of tap is a two flute "gun tap" so named because the point is shaped to "shoot" chips up the flutes. You can use this kind of configuration in a production mode without backing off on a through hole because of the extra chip clearance the configuration gives.
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