T25 Torx Bit to secure ground block and other accessories to cabinet frame. 3/4 - 1-1/2 pitch of insert 'set down' to allow forįor plug Taps 5/16' or M8 and smaller. Roll-formed, tubular and fully welded steel four-post frame.I will post how it goes and maybe take some photos of the parts when I am finished if you guys are interested in seeing them. Thanks to everyone for the kind knowledgeable advice here. If it works half as good as they are boasting I will probably buy these taps from now on as most of what I make is aluminum. Balax's website says that their taps can last 3-20 times longer on average than other taps. Altho what seems like a long time to me might be a days work for you guys running production parts all day long.

From what I understand the roll form taps take LESS HP and actually last longer which is hard to believe since the spiral flute taps I currently use seem to last a long time in Aluminum. I HAD been using some spiral flute taps in aluminum and they work TONS better than the typical hand taps I used to use. Hsse Roll Taps with Oil Groove DIN 371/376 Form C Tin/Ticn-M8 X 1.25. I like the idea that you get a smoother better thread with the roll form. China Roll Form Tap manufacturers - Select 2023 high quality Roll Form Tap products in best price from certified Chinese Abrasive Cloth, Coated Abrasive suppliers, wholesalers and factory on. Acme taps create trapezoidal threads with a 29 included angle. Ensure proper tolerances with OSG precision gauges. Chip-free thread-forming taps press against the sides of a hole to form threads. This is a really non- precision part but I am hoping it will be something the guys asking for it can sell a bunch of and I want to be able to offer it for a good price and be able to make them fast and accurate. Produces internal and external threads utilizing helical milling. s M1.25x thread-forming screws for plastics. We have a meeting with ABB on Monday & will be boasting of the excellent service you have provided use with & recommending/calling on your skills again soon. tap/die, a set of shaped cutting edges on a tool, provides own pitch dies are short, may introduce changed. Wish I had a large VMC but I am working on that. We would like to thank you & the team for a fantastic first class engineering job you have done for us. My machine is kinda small and has a 3hp three phase spindle. I will probably just use the coolant now since some of you remarked about it working well. This is my first Roll form tapping operation and I wanted info to help me get it right. As I said I am kinda new here and not really sure about this. Maybe we should spring for a new $10 tap before loosing a very-close-to-finished part.Ģ500RPm huh. We probably use an excessive amount filling a 0.600' deep hole to tap 10-24, but we have tapped hundreds of holes with one tap and no failures. Even Acetone and MEK has a hard time cleaning it off, well not really, but it never seems to want to come off easily.

Oh, all this in 6061-T6.ĭown side of Moly-Dee is the mess, don't get me wrong, it works wonderfully and we use it on a T316 stainlees job with Balax form taps, it's just kind of a bear to clean off. We still have one hole in a job that is a blind hole and use a sprial fluter.what a pia to have to pull the chips off after every batch.at least it's only 4 holes per cycle. The holes are not very deep so even our Mazak horizontal barely gets to speed before reversing.

I do not recall the tapping speed right off hand, but I'm thinking 2,500 rpm on 1/4-20's through M8's. Pete, are you running this on a machining center with coolant? We run our Balax Threadfloers (their tradename for thread foring taps) with a fairly low concentrate of coolant (~6% Qualichem semi-syn + water).

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