Straight Flute Taps

Spiral Pointed Tap Spiral point taps have an angled cutting face that forces material chips out ahead of the cut and a shallower flute passage, giving them more cross-sectional area. This offers greater strength, higher tapping speeds, and less power necessary to drive them.

High Speed Steel Ground Threads TMX Fast Spiral Hand Tap with Straight Flutes - available in two chamfer styles: plug chamfer has 3-5 thread chamfer length and bottoming chamfer has 1-2 thread length. # 6 - 32 H2, Fast Sprial, Bottoming Chamfer, HSS TMX Tap, Ground. Fast Spiral Taps move the chip up the flute and away from the cut thus reducing thread damage and double cutting of chips. Recommended for tapping of softer materials that product a stringy type chip

High Speed Steel Ground Threads TMX Hand Tap with Straight Flutes - available in three chamfer styles: taper chamfer has 8-10 thread chamfer length, plug chamfer has 3-5 thread chamfer length and bottoming chamfer has 1-2 thread length. M24 x 1.5 D5 Plug Chamfer ISO Metric HSS TMX Hand Tap, Ground, RH, 4 Flutes. ISO Metric taps with ANSI shanks

Hand Caps are used to cut threads in blind or through holes. They are used by hand or in general purpose machine operations.

High Speed Steel TMX Spiral Point Ground Flute Hand Tap available with a plug chamfer (3-5 thread length). # 10 - 24 H3, Spiral Point, Plug Chamfer, HSS TMX Tap, Ground, 2 Flutes. Spiral point taps are designed to shoot the chips forward thus the alternate name of Gun Tap Forward chip ejection is recommended for through holes and will reduce double cutting of chips thus producing a good clean thread