After seeing how many times our Mr Pulham seems to make use of thread taps Tec I thought I'd better add a variety to the armoury. I have used dies in the past but have been the 20mm, 25mm and 32mm versions for screwing threads onto electrical conduit in my sparky days. The taps I purchased today were in 6, 8 and 10ba sizes. I'll continue to add a few more as time goes on. I bought them from Eileens Empirium today whilst visiting the Perth Exhibition with his nibs. I bought a few screws to suit just to kick off with and a tap holder. Amazing the things that go into a tool kit. A picture or two later. Cheers Toto
I just added these to my tool kit, working with N-gauge I need the smaller metric sizes. https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/10X-Hand...attack-M1-M1-2-M1-4-M1-6-S2-F9Y3/332415857883 Paul
Here we are the taps themselves .... a doobery ...... to hold them in. a selection of suitable screws. there we have it cheers toto
Although I have a tap wrench (doobery) I find that most times I fit them in a PIN vice when tapping model parts. The pin vice is so much more more controllable. In addition to the selection you I have I would also suggest in time adding 12ba and 14ba taps to your tool box and if you have any DJH Kits to build you will also need a 2mm tap - All the DJH kits I have built so far have required you to tap the body mountings for the chassis 2mm
I would also consider getting 10ba/12ba and possibly 14ba dies as well. I have just had to re-thread the buffer castings on the Duchess because the threads don't really cast that well.
Thanks for the link Paul-H, I have a set on the way over. ( hi Rob, re metric taps, I have what I was informed was a 2.5mm thread tapped into a wheel but the screw will only go in a short way before going very tight. Are there different threads for metric screws? ) Kim
Most thread types including metic have more than one pitch, not sure about BA that might be the exception.. most have a Fine, Medium and coarse option
Hi Kimbo, Yes, as Paul has alluded to and to make things even more interested I am informed that BA threads are in fact metric but I have no more detail than that.
