The $4 tap guide you may already own

[tylernt]

I discovered that if you take a piece out of the brass Harbor Freight automatic centerpunch, it makes a dandy tap guide for your drill press:

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRv6UXpVwrE[/ame]

 

[ChooChooMike]

Sweet !! Very clever

Gotta try that !!

 

[Ken I]

Cute - thanks for posting that.

 

[shred]

Pretty cool... I use my HF centerpunch all the time... makes a great little chipping hammer too

but those cheeep "carbon steel" HF tap sets.. yeek.. mine was really bad (although the HF HSS set is decent for occasional use)

 

[tylernt]

Yeah... I bought those tap and die set many years ago before I found out how crappy some HF stuff can be. Surprisingly, the HF set actually cuts threads whereas the one I got from an auto parts store self-destructs doing the same thing. ??? But yeah, these are good for cleaning up damaged threads only.

 

[websterz]

Very clever sir...a Karma point for you!