Best quality M2 taps

[not done it yetParticipant @notdoneityet]

IanT,

You will have a PM shortly. Nowt to do with m2 taps (but a means of catching your attention if you miss the flashing message icon! ).

[Andrew TinsleyParticipant @andrewtinsley63637]

I find that tap quality is a roulette game. In M2 size, I have Dormer and Presto, both very good indeed. I also have a Tracy tools M2 in carbon steel and that actually cuts a little better.

The best M2 tap that I have is one from a cheap unbranded blue box of Metric taps and dies. I purchased it from a surplus tool store, at one of the exhibitions. So I am a little nonplussed about "Quality".

I suspect that you can sharpen a carbon steel tap to a higher degree of sharpness than you can for an equivalent HSS tap. The carbon steel one simply blunts faster. This will probably be disputed by those that know.

Unless the starting metal is rubbish, I think the best tap, is the one you have just sharpened! It is one of the reasons that I am making a Quorn. A friend sharpens my blunt taps at the moment and the best one, is the latest to come from him.

I may be just talking rubbish here and would appreciate a comment from someone that really knows their taps .

Andrew.

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