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[PixMan]

Good looking tools Ed. Where are they made? Any particular reason for the over/under sizes on the reamers, and it that a double-ended 90º spot drill?

[EdK]

(12-04-2014, 06:53 PM)PixMan Wrote: Good looking tools Ed. Where are they made? Any particular reason for the over/under sizes on the reamers, and it that a double-ended 90º spot drill?

Thanks Ken. All made in the USA. M.A. Ford countersinks/deburring tools and Yankee reamers. The reamers are for making the clamp knurling tool Tom is making the videos for. The double ended tool is a 90 degree deburring tool. I use a lot of #4, 6 and 8 machine screws in my projects so I needed a deburring tool for small holes.

Ed

[PixMan]

Got some 1/32" (0.0312", 0.8mm) solid carbide 4-flute TiAlN coated end mills in today. I snagged them off of eBay for a total of $27.20, about the list price of one. I got FIVE.

You know with these small tools, Murphy's Law says if you have one, you will break it. If you have a spare, you won't need it. So...what's the word on five?



Sorry for the fuzzy cell phone photo.

[Mayhem]

I think that five means that you will never find a need to use them. Either that or an international guest will bust one whilst using your mill...

[PixMan]

Today's UPS delivery:



It's a new Prototype (brand) "Paradur Eco Plus AEP2256302-UNC3/4" which means it's HSS-E (5% cobalt) PM (particle metal), THL (technical hard lube) coated 3/4-10UNC 2B spiral 4 flute semi-bottoming tap for steels, stainless steels, cast irons and non-ferrous metals. A very high-performance, long life tool that lists for a whopping $142.00US.

With an eBay "Buy It Now" price of $45 (with free shipping), I just couldn't resist.

I'm going to test it soon by drilling a Ø 21/32" x 1.25" deep hole in some 1018 steel and see if my Alliant milling machine has enough torque to power tap with it.

[the penguin]

(01-08-2015, 07:54 PM)PixMan Wrote: Today's UPS delivery:



It's a new Prototype (brand) "Paradur Eco Plus AEP2256302-UNC3/4" which means it's HSS-E (5% cobalt) PM (particle metal), THL (technical hard lube) coated 3/4-10UNC 2B spiral 4 flute semi-bottoming tap for steels, stainless steels, cast irons and non-ferrous metals. A very high-performance, long life tool that lists for a whopping $142.00US.

With an eBay "Buy It Now" price of $45 (with free shipping), I just couldn't resist.

I'm going to test it soon by drilling a Ø 21/32" x 1.25" deep hole in some 1018 steel and see if my Alliant milling machine has enough torque to power tap with it.

Damn!!, that looks spiffy! Now all you need is a job to use it on.

All I got today was (6) OSG #4-40, 2 flute spiral point taps and a 5" x 2" sine bar for $20, compared to you, I came up short.

[EdK]

That's a beautiful tool.

Ed

[PixMan]

(01-08-2015, 08:31 PM)EdK Wrote: That's a beautiful tool.

Ed

Yes, it certainly is Ed, thank you.

I've got a couple of "pedestrian quality" Greenfield HSS spiral point taps in 3/4-10, but this is the first spiral flute one for blind holes. I have hand taps, but I haven't used one in years because they seem to break or at least chip so easily.

In smaller sizes, the common 10-24, 1/4-20 & 5/16-18 (and in UNF versions) I have some Greenfield high helix spiral flute taps, but I've seen those break easily too. Once you get your hands on a super high quality, high performance tap like these you learn the difference and they DO NOT break unless you're careless or a complete hack.

[Black Forest]

Man oh Man, there is something wrong with us! I looked at the closeup of the tap and admired the curves and edges and the geometry with a wistful feeling.

I remember getting that feeling looking at pictures in Playboy! Now I think I would move the Playboy aside to pickup the machine tool catalog.

[Mayhem]

Interesting comment BF.  I can see a money making enterprise here and I'm off to register the domain name www,playtool,com as soon as I've finished this post...

Don't worry, it wont contain the pic of John it his budgie smugglers that he subjected us to after his holiday.  Just classy pictures of tooling


Edit:  Damn it - somebody got there first.  I'll have to give this further thought!