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Can O' Beans · 02-23-2003, 11:15 PM

Heres a tip from me

Whenever I go for threads 8-32 or smaller, I don't use taps at all since they break 90% of the time, unless they're really high quality taps. Instead, I use high strength self-tapping machine screws. The ones I have have a triangle shape on the ends so they "Displace" the metal instead of cutting it - they're not the screws with a cutting slot on the end.

I just apply some of my Castrol cutting wax I "borrowed" from previous employer

, and thread it on in. Since I started doing it this way, I've never had a single problem with breakage and the threads haven't stripped out, and the screws also are tighter in the threads, unlike tapped threads that can be loose.

02-23-2003, 11:15 PM	#20
Can O' Beans Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Pa - USA Posts: 264	Heres a tip from me Whenever I go for threads 8-32 or smaller, I don't use taps at all since they break 90% of the time, unless they're really high quality taps. Instead, I use high strength self-tapping machine screws. The ones I have have a triangle shape on the ends so they "Displace" the metal instead of cutting it - they're not the screws with a cutting slot on the end. I just apply some of my Castrol cutting wax I "borrowed" from previous employer , and thread it on in. Since I started doing it this way, I've never had a single problem with breakage and the threads haven't stripped out, and the screws also are tighter in the threads, unlike tapped threads that can be loose.