New designs for short chipping and chip-free tapping are developed for aluminum machining, to deliver high-quality threads at a low cost per part. Threading is often the last operation in part ...

Thread taps are an essential part of any mechanic’s toolbox-- mostly because, well, you will ruin some threads. Or, as is the case for YouTube user This Old Tony, you’re fabricating parts from scratch ...

“With the launch of Milwaukee taps and dies, we delivered on our promise to disrupt the market,” said Brad Urban, director of product marketing. “We saw that very little innovation has been made to ...

In this video we will make wootz steel from threading tap. After the ingot, we will make a hidden bamboo knife. To make a wootz steel ingot, we needed old taps for threading, iron powder, graphite, ...

If you're working on an older car, Harbor Freight's tape and die sets are handy tools that help rethread hardware components ...

The average do-it-yourselfer hates to drill metal, especially steel. We don’t know how many questions readers have submitted and we’ve answered on that topic over the years. Even the most enthusiastic ...

Think you’re screwed with an iffy thread? The Clarke CHT308 Tap & Die Set will get you out of a cross-threaded hole.