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A tap follower
« on: November 14, 2013, 04:04:35 PM »
Yeah, I needed one ... so I made one !

http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html
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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2013, 05:26:51 PM »
Looks good.
This is one of the first accessories I bought before
I figured out I could make what ever I needed.

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2013, 05:29:57 PM »
Oh one of those!  I thought you made a bolt!  :D

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #3 on: November 15, 2013, 03:13:23 AM »
Nice one. Any chance of parts inside?

Google tranlator offered finnish and I tried it. Hilarious. Even the english part. Can you guess which meaning it used for "spring". You guess it! Not the springgy one, but seasonal one. :lol:

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #4 on: November 15, 2013, 03:54:03 AM »
Nice one. Any chance of parts inside?

Google tranlator offered finnish and I tried it. Hilarious. Even the english part. Can you guess which meaning it used for "spring". You guess it! Not the springgy one, but seasonal one. :lol:

Pekka

 :Doh: Yeah, Google Translate is NOT what it was ... one can say, Google is NOT what it was - all this integration **** ... Gabriel, blow your horn !

Parts inside ... a spring (nothing to do with the seasons  :loco:) and a "nail-like" tip - the head of the "nail" shall be bigger than the diameter of the spring - that's it !

I learned that nearly every tap - except the "small" ones - have en "center-drill" in the top end of the shaft - but unfortunately the "smaller" ones have a cone like a tip !

So, in fact the very "tip" should be reversible - something like this:

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>----|----->
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As shown here, it's for the bigger taps with a "center drill" in the top.

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<----|----<
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Here it's for the smaller taps with a cone in the top !

 :bang: :bang: when you are a nuclehead - you just make a new one ... so, that's what I'm gonna do  :doh:

I have maded a schetch in Schetch on my web site: http://kelds.weebly.com/tap-follower.html
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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #5 on: November 15, 2013, 05:51:12 AM »
Thank you. I got it.

I made one bit like that in stone age. But much more crude and ad-hoc. I just drilled and reamed hole at the nose of MT3 blanco and plonkked a spring and a centre made out of silver steel. It is rather long to reduce tendency of the centre to fall off. Hmmm.. thinkking of it maybe I should make another centre with a dimple.

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #6 on: November 15, 2013, 06:31:50 AM »
Mine was even cruder - just a pointed rod in the Bridgeport chuck kept in place by downwards pressure on the quill feed arm, but now I tend to loosely grip in a chuck and start the tap by hand turning. (or power tap if the tap is stout enough)

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #7 on: November 15, 2013, 09:58:45 AM »


           I have a set of tap wrenches made by Eclipse, they grip the tap in a chuck, and have a center hole in the other to locate with a  center.

                             Cheers David

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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2014, 11:55:34 AM »
These are mine. I made the top two, one male one female as some small Taps have a point on the end. I bought the one at the bottom but had to remake the internals as it was such a poor fit! I think I made it reversible, one end male, one female.


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Re: A tap follower
« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2014, 11:58:47 AM »
Oh, really nice Work you have done !  :bow:  :bow: :bow: :bow:
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