I'd like to buy this, that, and the other, but money is tight. I'm thinking
of lots of things I could fashion some reasonable approximation of for
myself, if only I had some way to thread something to fit on my spindle.

I have a JET mini, so I guess that's 1"-8. I don't have a tap anywhere
close to that big, and I don't think I've ever seen one. Is it as simple
as finding a machine tools catalog or such online and buying a big tap?
Can you actually tap wood acceptably with a metal tap, or should I be
thinking along different lines? (Most of the gadgets I have in mind to
make, like a screw chuck, would be fashioned out of wood.)

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