VAPPING

uts and dies are tools used to erente serew threads, which is called threinding

Many are cutting tools ; otlhers are foming tools. A tap is used to cut or form the

nale portion of the mating pair (o.Bmut), A die is used to cut or form the male

on of the mating puir (Cg. a bolt ). The process of cuting or forming thrends

ing a tap is called tapping whereas the process using a die is called threading. Both

nok can be used to clean up a thread, which is called chasing However, using an

y tap or die to clean threads will generally result in the removal of some

material, which will result in looser and weaker threands. Because of this, threads are

vypically cl caned using special taps and dies made for this purpose, which are known

as "chasers.One particularly common use is for automotive spark plug threads, which

Many are cutting tools ; others are

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often suffer from corrosion and a buildup of carbon.

Tapping may either be achieved by a hand tapping by using a set of taps first tap,

second tap & İnal (finish) tap or using a machine to do the lapping, such as a lathe

radial drilling machine, bench type drill machine, pillar type drill machine, vertical

milling machines, HMCs, VMCs. Machine tapping is faster, and generally more

accurate because hurnan error is eliminated. Final tapping is เ chieved with single

tap. Although in general machine tapping is more aceurate, tapping operations have

fraditionally been very tricky to execute due to frequent tap breakage and

consistent quality of tapping

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