On Tuesday 03 April 2007, born4something wrote:
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Well, I did get the broken tap out!
Eureka! Great feeling when a broken tap is sorted!
It sure was!
Trying to get around that to bore out the center more screwed up my
boring bar and I am still trying to figure out how to hone it down on
the diamond lap - it looks right but doesn't seem to cut as before. I
had the impression that carbide would remove the part of the tap
sticking down into the bore - apparently not.
Cost me a few PCB drills to figure it out, but one pays for education
one way or the other :).
Hopefully there will not be a next time to experiment with the
alum :-).
Oh yes there will. That's unless you're about to quit and sell up
your shop! But with more experience you should go further between
broken taps.
Hopefully that is indeed traumatizing :). Painful lessons are the best
learned?
Color me optimistic anyway :).
All's well that ends well and I learned a bunch in the process!
Can't hope for much better.
Very very true!
Hey here's a laugh for you. I dropped into the local Bunnings
Hardware down the road looking for a tap. As a hardware chain they
don't rate in my books but they are walking distance. When I asked
where they'd hidden the thread cutting taps (I couldn't find them in
the self serve settup) they called the rep from plumbing. I started
for the door before I had to explain it all again... Stop laughing
Ian - they're taking over hardware in SA too!
Sounds like Lowe's yesterday, I asked about alum at the service desk and
spent 5 minutes telling the sales droids that "Yes, I have looked on
this isle, that isle and the other isle and that one too" Finally I
suggested he look up "alum" on the computer in front of him. Seemed to
surprise him that he could do that. Where *do* the get these
people?!??!?
Sigh...
Thanks & take care, Vikki.
--
Victoria Welch, WV9K/7
"90% of the politicians give the other 10% a bad reputation." -- Henry
Kissinger
