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What is the function of a plug tap?

What is the function of a plug tap?

When processing threads with machinery, -Plug taps are commonly used for through hole tapping with metal working machinery without using a starter Taper tap. -If using metal working machinery, you can start blind hole tapping with a bottoming tap without using a Taper and Plug tap first.

What is hand taps?

Tap, a screwlike tool that has threads like a bolt and two, three, or four longitudinal flutes or grooves and that is used to cut screw threads in a nut or a hole. Hand taps are made in sets of three: the taper tap, the plug tap, and the bottoming tap.

Why is tap used?

A tap is used to cut or form the female portion of the mating pair (e.g. a nut). A die is used to cut or form the male portion of the mating pair (e.g. a bolt). The process of cutting or forming threads using a tap is called tapping, whereas the process using a die is called threading.

Why are three taps used for doing an internal thread by hand?

– Serial taps divide the cutting operation into several passes and thus enable easy but time-consuming threading; the third tap – due to its short chamfer – is able to almost completely cut out blind holes.

What is the difference between a hand tap and a machine tap?

Hand Tap and Machine Tap are terms that don’t always mean what you think! As machine tapping is a much faster operation than turning a tap by hand, chip evacuation became more difficult to control. Machine taps would become defined as those with flutes designed with geometry to direct the flow of chips out of the hole.

What is the most common tap?

Taper Taps are the most common types of taps and are typically what you’ll have in a Tap and Die Set.

When do you use a plug tap on a thread?

Plug Tap: When the chamfer is shallow enough to only affect the first 3 to 5 threads it is referred to as a plug tap. The shallower chamfer makes them harder to start a new thread. Likewise, they require more force to spin when cutting a thread for the first time.

What do you do with a hand tap?

A conventional hand tap works as a cutting tool by removing material from a work piece. This is done using sharp teeth. The tap is spun down a hole within a work piece. The hole is referred to as a pilot or tap hole and is sized according to the desired thread and the material to be tapped.

What’s the difference between a plug tap and a bottom tap?

Plug Taps are in between Bottoming and Taper Taps because they have 3-5 threads tapered, which is more than a Bottoming Tap and less than a Taper Tap. Unfortunately, terminology is not always consistent. Some vendors call these “Second Taps” and refer to Bottoming Taps as Plug Taps.

What kind of taps are used in blind holes?

Taper Taps have 7 to 10 thread chamfers to distribute cutting action over many teeth and the taper also acts as a guide in starting. Plug Taps, with a chamfer over four threads, is most widely used in through holes and where there is sufficient room at the bottom in blind holes.