If I see a tap in green coating, would it be correct to assume that it
is a resharp?

i

On 2007-10-11, Grant Erwin wrote:
Ignoramus22384 wrote:
If I see a tap in green coating, would it be correct to assume that it
is a resharp?

It could be, probably is. But it also could be someone was just using up some
green hot dip.

It could also be new. Sometimes plastic packages get cracked and tossed.

Basically, I think all you can assume is that it's a tap in green coating.

I have about 250 lbs of taps in my pickup, hence the question. They
came from a plant that was surplising some of their stuff, I am sure
that they have no time for cheap gimmicks -- and they did not get much
$$ for the taps either, not worth the scamming effort.

By the way, the visit to the plant today was very interesting, they
had giant metalworking machines the size of a small house.

i

Ignoramus22384 wrote:
If I see a tap in green coating, would it be correct to assume that it
is a resharp?

It could be, probably is. But it also could be someone was just using up some
green hot dip.

It could also be new. Sometimes plastic packages get cracked and tossed.

Basically, I think all you can assume is that it's a tap in green coating.

:-)

GWE

Ignoramus22384 wrote:
On 2007-10-11, Grant Erwin wrote:

Ignoramus22384 wrote:

If I see a tap in green coating, would it be correct to assume that it
is a resharp?

It could be, probably is. But it also could be someone was just using up some
green hot dip.

It could also be new. Sometimes plastic packages get cracked and tossed.

Basically, I think all you can assume is that it's a tap in green coating.


I have about 250 lbs of taps in my pickup, hence the question. They
came from a plant that was surplising some of their stuff, I am sure
that they have no time for cheap gimmicks -- and they did not get much
$$ for the taps either, not worth the scamming effort.

By the way, the visit to the plant today was very interesting, they
had giant metalworking machines the size of a small house.

Resharpened taps aren't like resharpened end mills, right? Machinists depend on
new end mills being a certain diameter and when they get sharpened (unless they
just do the end) they get smaller. But taps are sharpened along the flutes and
still do every bit as good a job as when they were new.

GWE

On Oct 11, 10:18 am, Ignoramus22384 ignoramus22...@NOSPAM.
22384.invalid wrote:
If I see a tap in green coating, would it be correct to assume that it
is a resharp?

i

no

"Grant Erwin" wrote in message
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Resharpened taps aren't like resharpened end mills, right? Machinists
depend on
new end mills being a certain diameter and when they get sharpened (unless
they
just do the end) they get smaller. But taps are sharpened along the flutes
and
still do every bit as good a job as when they were new.


That's not necessarily true. Taps are often sharpened only on the tapered
portion that does the cutting, totally ignoring the flute. Weldon, in fact,
made a tap sharpening fixture that did just that.

One thing I can assure you is that a resharpened tap, unless handled
extremely well in the resharpening process, won't come close to the
performance of a new tap, and may not cut size. That was a tough lesson
learned by management when I was working in the aero-space industry. The
tool crib tossed dull taps and replaced them, which turned out to be much
cheaper than the valued parts scrapped from oversized threads.

Harold