Olddaddy Posted September 30, 2007 Report Share Posted September 30, 2007 I've broken and removed taps for over 35 years. Some have been easy, some hard, and a few impossible. I busted one off in the flywheel on my spare tractor motor the other day and tried all my old dog tricks to get it out. I found a nice tool for making it easy, a Walton tap extractor. The idea is the extractor has steel fingers designed to fit inside the flutes of the tap. Once inserted you clamp down the sliding collar and turn the tap out of the holes. I am now a convert, happily reformed in my ways and ordering one of these extractors for all the tap sizes I commonly work with. Mine came from Mcmaster Carr, but the maker has distributors also. This is one to keep in the tool box, old dog or new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
splat1955 Posted October 1, 2007 Report Share Posted October 1, 2007 Hey...I like that idea, I've had to remove a few myself over the years...and besides that feeling you get just before they snap.....is the feeling you get after the breakage knowing the worst is yet to come. I'm think I'm going to look into these as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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