Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC

Oddball..., as in shape? Thread? Material?
JR
Dweller in te cellar

Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC


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Oddball..., as in shape? Thread? Material?
JR
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Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC


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Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes
Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive
The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me
No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses
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"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."

"JR North" wrote in message
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Oddball..., as in shape? Thread? Material?
JR
Dweller in te cellar

Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC


--
--------------------------------------------------------------
Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes
Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive
The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me
No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses
--------------------------------------------------------------
Dependence is Vulnerability:
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."

Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC

I made a "W-48" form tap yesterday.
Does that qualify as obb-ball?

There are many places that make custom taps.
I haven't looked, but will in the future.
I don't believe they are too expensive.

--
Gary A. Gorgen | "From ideas to PRODUCTS"
| Tunxis Design Inc.
| Cupertino, Ca. 95014

Hmmmnnn . . . you'd think a millwright, or a millwright's relative would
have a better description than "oddball". Justgoestoshowya, he thinks we
are not only magicians, but mind readers as well.

Bob Swinney

PS: FWIW taps can be made by anyone with a screw cutting lathe and some
drill rod. Dies are a little more complicated, but doable. It's a "chicken
and egg" thing. First you make the tap and then use the tap to make the
die, etc.

"JR North" wrote in message
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Oddball..., as in shape? Thread? Material?
JR
Dweller in te cellar

Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC


--
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Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes
Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive
The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me
No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses
--------------------------------------------------------------
Dependence is Vulnerability:
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."

OoPPs, sorry for the triple post. My PC has a screw in it I made the tap
for.

Bob Swinney
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Hmmmnnn . . . you'd think a millwright, or a millwright's relative would
have a better description than "oddball". Justgoestoshowya, he thinks we
are not only magicians, but mind readers as well.

Bob Swinney

PS: FWIW taps can be made by anyone with a screw cutting lathe and some
drill rod. Dies are a little more complicated, but doable. It's a
"chicken and egg" thing. First you make the tap and then use the tap to
make the die, etc.

"JR North" wrote in message
news
Oddball..., as in shape? Thread? Material?
JR
Dweller in te cellar

Charles V. Craig wrote:

Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC


--
--------------------------------------------------------------
Home Page: http://www.seanet.com/~jasonrnorth
If you're not the lead dog, the view never changes
Doubt yourself, and the real world will eat you alive
The world doesn't revolve around you, it revolves around me
No skeletons in the closet; just decomposing corpses
--------------------------------------------------------------
Dependence is Vulnerability:
--------------------------------------------------------------
"Open the Pod Bay Doors please, Hal"
"I'm sorry, Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.."

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 09:33:51 -0500, Charles V. Craig wrote:



Hi everybody,

Does anyone in this NG make custom taps and dies? My cousin ( a
millwright) is looking for some odd-ball taps and dies for work. He
isn't computer literate, which is why I got tasked with searching
online

Cheers,

CVC

To be honest, I would expect a millwright to know how to make one-off taps
and dies as a matter of course.

For taps:-
Take tool steel of choice. Starting with square section makes life easier.
Turn desired thread on it. Turn a pilot and/or taper. Cut flutes using a mill
or shaper (I used a shaper) then harden steel or harden steel then cut flutes
with a surface grinder.

For crude dies:-
Take tool steel of choice. Drill holes to make flutes. Bore hole for core
diameter. Boring a pilot can help with alignment. Tap or single point thread.
Turn taper with cross-slide. Harden.

It works.

Mark Rand
RTFM

On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:26:50 -0500, "Robert Swinney"
wrote:

Hmmmnnn . . . you'd think a millwright, or a millwright's relative would
have a better description than "oddball". Justgoestoshowya, he thinks we
are not only magicians, but mind readers as well.

Bob Swinney

PS: FWIW taps can be made by anyone with a screw cutting lathe and some
drill rod. Dies are a little more complicated, but doable. It's a "chicken
and egg" thing. First you make the tap and then use the tap to make the
die, etc.



He's the mechanic, I'm the nerd (shrug), what can I say...? :=)

He's looking for a metric tap\die pair, which is "M32x1.25".
I'm guessing that means 32mm x 1.25 mm?

He said he took lathe and mill in his course, but he "sucked" at it,
so that's probably why he hopes to find someone who can make it for
him.

Any idea as to cost?



Thanks,

CVC

Charles V. Craig wrote:

He's looking for a metric tap\die pair, which is "M32x1.25".
I'm guessing that means 32mm x 1.25 mm?

Any idea as to cost?

The M32 * 1.5 (they don't list 1.25) costs (sit down) 147.- EUR. That
are about $180. Oh, there's a cheaper one for 85.- EUR.
The die costs 75.- EUR.

Nick
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http://www.motor-manufaktur.de
DIY-DRO // Eigenbau-Digitalanzeige
http://www.yadro.de

In this part of the world anyway, the term Millwright can mean either:

1) Someone who is not only a fully qualified and trained machinist in
the sense of lathe/mill etc operator, but also trained to set up,
align, and probably recondition and repair machine tools, or

2) Someone who may never have had formal training or any/much
experience as a machine tool operator or any of the theory needed to
be a machinist, but who installs, sets up, and adjusts drive trains,
belts motors pullys, etc for saw mills and other such industiral
equipment.

Same term, but hardly the same skill set.

Mickey


To be honest, I would expect a millwright to know how to make one-off taps
and dies as a matter of course.

On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 01:14:37 +0200, (Nick Müller)
wrote:

Charles V. Craig wrote:

He's looking for a metric tap\die pair, which is "M32x1.25".
I'm guessing that means 32mm x 1.25 mm?

Any idea as to cost?

The M32 * 1.5 (they don't list 1.25) costs (sit down) 147.- EUR. That
are about $180. Oh, there's a cheaper one for 85.- EUR.
The die costs 75.- EUR.

Nick


Holy crap, I don't think he's gonna like that

Thank you, Nick. I'll pass that along.



Cheers,

CVC