Drill America 3/8-16 UNC High Speed Steel Tap Set

Just what I needed.

Small taps need to be high quality and these are. Good value too.

Im a machinist by trade. I cant say how they would hold up in a commercial setting but in my home shop environment they worked very well.

These taps DO NOT have the center for using a tap follower as pictured.

Used for threading bored out delrin rods. Worked great. Excellent results.

I needed a tap that would thread deeper than the shank. The ones in the illustration would do that. The 1/4-20 taps that were delivered will not. That said, these taps are nicely made and should work well for a lot of applications.

The cheap sets you get at mass retailers are okay, but theres no substitute for having a taper tap, a regular tap, and a bottoming tap all in the same size for some jobs, and the cheap sets you see usually only have regular taps. I still use my cheap taps, but when Im, working on something special like a steam engine kit, I order up one of these sets in each size Im going to need.

The taps look OK. I have not yet used them. However, a set of 3 was advertised and I only got 2 in the package. It was not worth the effort to try to return them, but I feel cheated.

I ordered a set of three and just got two. Thats unacceptable

I spent over 10 years in a machine shop and can say these are legit taps. Not the cheap carbon ones...these are HSS and ground well. True gun tap, bottom tap and plug taps.