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Your cart is empty.Drill America DWT Series High Speed Steel hand taps are the most versatile taps for hand use, or for tapping under power. Hand taps are popular for use in general machine tapping or CNC tapping. For re-threading and making new threads. High Speed Steel Hand Taps come in three styles: Taper Style: Starts the thread square with the workpiece. Plug Style: Generally used in thru holes. Bottom Style: Generate the thread to the bottom of the hole. A tap set contains 1 taper, 1 plug and 1 bottoming tap.
White Crow
2025-08-29 09:35:35
It broke on me but to be fair you take a risk each time you use a drill instead of a tap/die bar.It cut through thin gauge steel (my original reason for buying it) without tap fluid easy.It made it through 10 out of 12 deep aluminum holes with fluid before snapping.To be fair, and hence my 5 star, I knew the risk from using a drill for it and it was an afterthought. Some slide/rail parts I got only had half of the holes tapped for whatever reason, and I noticed they were 10-32 so I finished em with this guy.If I had an originally bigger purpose for purchasing, I would have paid $10 for a solid tap bit, but since I initially bought this for literally 4 tiny holes, and it was $3, I'll give it 5 stars
TRJ
2025-08-26 15:38:42
For a cheapo tap, worked fine. Needed a two-flute and this did the trick for a dozen holes in mild steel.
Joseph Poirier
2025-07-12 10:59:18
originally bought the Dewalt package, which is really, really hard steel & it snapped in the hole. Now this is a really small screw in a lawnmower, holding the transformer in place that sparks the spark plug as the magnets float by, so I couldn't go bigger. Used a grinder to make an [X] on top center of hole & titanium impact bits from Harbor Freight to cut the initial hole & break bit.The larger grooves & some PB blaster, allowed the metals to collect as I turned the new tap, so I could screw unscrew, blow out/wipe & repeat, until the hole was clear for a new screw to go in.Dewalt's pack, just didn't have deep enough grooves for the metals & snapped when I was unscrewing, which was likely my fault. But this bit allowed me to go deeper, so it was quicker & a better choice for my project.
R&L
2025-07-02 18:15:56
This is a good product. I oiled it and took my time on the first set of threads I cut. The second set, I went too fast and snapped it off inside the hole I intended to tap. Take your time, do no more than 1/4 turn at a time, I did a full turn because I got overconfident and screwed up. Hopefully that helps.
Fred Turgeston
2025-06-15 17:10:29
I have no reference for what makes a good one or bad one but it worked for me
Michael Davis
2025-05-30 16:43:21
Only needed it to thread some camera mounts. Worked perfectly in aluminum. Didn’t try it in harder materials
Jeff F
2025-05-28 17:01:08
I bought two of these and both of them snapped halfway through the tapping process. I had to spend some additional time removing broken tap pieces from the threaded hole.I was tapping 1/4-20 holes in mild steel (un-hardened). When these taps both failed, I scrounged around through my tool box and found an old tap and was able to complete the project with no further issues.In this case a low price definitely meant a low quality product.
Craig C
2025-05-01 13:42:16
Does just what a tap should do...
Richard
2025-03-15 14:48:46
The tap does its job, which is cutting threads. I've only tapped 2 holes with it and seems to have held up fine, no visible wear. Good enough for the price. Have definitely used better quality taps.
Cody Allen
2025-02-19 12:20:53
This was one of the best taps I've ever used. I own a small business and needed some taps to manufacture some parts. I decided to get some new taps because the mastercraft I had were not threading very nicely. The three flutes and high quality build made it a breeze to tap around 80 holes. Well worth the price and I will definitely get more drill america taps in the future.
Baso
2025-02-09 12:35:20
Tap broken while making first thread on aluminum 🥹. Material is not strong . I bought other brand 5pieces set with less price works fine. This product useless.
Kirk Gable
2025-01-22 20:31:26
chase threads
Grant Borysiuk
2025-01-09 19:54:08
The taps with the end sharpened like this are my favorite.
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