Subject: Good brands of small taps and dies

From: [email-masked] (Russell Horswood)
Date: Tue, 02 Jul 1996 03:21:41 GMT

I'm coming to the U.S.A. later in the year and I need to find out which 
are good brands of small taps and dies. The sizes needed are 0-12 in 
U.N.F. and U.N.C. As I'm from Australia I don't know which are America's 
best brands. Any advice will be appeciated.  Thanks in advance. 
Russ.Horswood

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From: [email-masked] (Scott Logan)
Date: 1 Jul 1996 12:35:56 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>, From 
[email-masked] (Russell Horswood), the following was
written: > I'm coming to the U.S.A. later in the year and I need to find
out  > which are good brands of small taps and dies.

There are MANY manufacturers of quality taps.  One that we have used
with success, especially for special size taps (such as Acme) is Widell.

http://www.widell.com

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From: [email-masked] (Russ Kepler)
Date: Mon, 1 Jul 1996 21:32:00 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,

>From  one Russ to another (us Russ' have to stick together) I'd
suggest a Greenfield set B8.  This would give you 0-80, 1-72, 2-56,
3-48, 4-40, 6-32, 8-32 and 10-24 with HSS taps and carbon dies, a tap
holder and a die holder.  This is a mix of NC and NF, but the more
common sizes used.  I've had good luck with Greenfield taps, not much
experience with their carbon dies.  This set would run you $205 from
MSC.

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From: Demon Buddha <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 03 Jul 1996 12:02:56 -0400

> best brands. Any advice will be appeciated.  Thanks in advance.

	Regal make nice stuff, though not so cheap.  I'm not sure they
	make anything as small as a zero series, but they may.

	For small stuff Morris is probably the best I know of but they
	are also $$.

	-Andy V.
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