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Your cart is empty.Drill America DWT Series High Speed Steel hand taps are the most versatile taps for hand use, or for tapping under power. Hand taps are popular for use in general machine tapping or CNC tapping. For re-threading and making new threads. High Speed Steel Hand Taps come in three styles: Taper Style: Starts the thread square with the workpiece. Plug Style: Generally used in thru holes. Bottom Style: Generate the thread to the bottom of the hole. A tap set contains 1 taper, 1 plug and 1 bottoming tap.
Daryl T.
Reviewed in the United States on January 2, 2025
nice product
david
Reviewed in the United States on December 8, 2024
Needed to restore thread on my maglite flashlight. Worked perfectly.
rkruz
Reviewed in the United States on March 6, 2020
I used the Drill America tap to fix threads in a arbor or jam nut. It worked very well. The tapered end allowed me to be sure the tap was lining up correctly with the existing threads. Back and forth a couple times and the threads were completely repaired. Excellent product.
Rusty Shackleford
Reviewed in the United States on August 20, 2016
Worked as it should have to tap a single hole in a 1/2 piece of aluminum.
B. Cooper
Reviewed in the United States on June 1, 2016
This 5/8"-28 tap matches the thread in the tail of a 2AA Mini Maglite. I had a battery leak, and the resulting corrosion made it very difficult to unscrew the tail cap (I had to clamp it in a chuck). I eventually got it apart, extracted the batteries, and scraped out the residue, but the threads were badly galled. I used a needle file to clean up the external threads on the tail cap, but had to buy this tap to re-cut the internal threads.Note that some internet sources say the Mini Maglite has a 27-pitch instead of a 28-pitch thread. While a 27-pitch thread would probably work just fine (since the threaded part of the cap is only about four threads long), I inspected the Maglite threads under a microscope with a thread gauge and I am certain it is actually 28 TPI. I had no problem re-cutting the internal threads with this tap, and the tail cap now screws right in.Of course, for the price of this tap I could have just bought a new flashlight. But I generally err on the side of buying new tools, and these flashlights are very common (there are at least three in my household) so I'm sure this won't be my only opportunity to use it.
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