I have given up using tap wrenches or handles.
Drill a hole, chuck the tap, tap...

--
Michael Koblic,
Campbell River, BC

"Dave August" wrote in message
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As George has said lots of good advice so far...

but I'll go one further than he and Jon have said about a tapping block,

build yourself a tapping fixture like this.

http://www.ggls.org/TappingFixture/

It's an afternoon project with hardware store parts.

I posted this here several years ago and got an incredible amount of
positive feedback on it, and about 5 months ago Matt Mason published this
in his "LGRR" Magizine...

Oh I'm I "buy the best" kind of guy... "Cheap tools are false economy"