Mark, I don’t think you have the concept of the tap head yet. It is a devise the has two cones and if pressure is put on the lower one, it turns clockwise,
... Or building tooling plates with dozens of tapped holes in a regular grid pattern. I've made a half dozen different ones for special purposes, including
Greetings, There's nothing wrong with it, provided all you want to do is tap a hole you just drilled in the lathe. Works very well in fact, and is a handy bit
I remember nixitubes, I still have some here lieing arround somewere. The only experience I have with a tapping head is a long time ago, it was kind of wobbely
... Mark, If you have never used a tapping head you don't know the joys! In my youth I worked a summer at Hewlett Packard plant and on day one was assigned a