IRWIN Bottoming Tap, #6-48NS (1221)

Great quality and it works perfectly!

Hard size to find 6-48 Needed a bottom tap to clean up some holes on a gun barrel for mounting a scope. Worked perfect!

It did what it supposed to do on my savage 12fv. Needs to be lubricated to push excess metal pieces. 4 stars cuz of 2 days late delivery.

Worked perfect....for those that dont know use your drill press manually to thread your hole right after you drill it..once you reach how far you want unchuck the tap and back it outby hand to make sure you feel that it threaded good and comes out with ease. I bought three taps afraid they would break but using above method kept that from happening. Will probably rust away before I ever get to second one.

This was a six-pack of taps, but I only needed one of them to tap eight 6-48 holes for two receiver-mounted picatinny rails. Worked great, I have no complaints, and have zero hesitation recommending this product for those who need one. Good Luck!

There are three basis types of taps: flute, plug and bottoming. This is a flute tap, not a bottoming tap, the photo does not include the flute point at the end of this tap. It looks like the bottom of the tap in the photo has been cut off in the photo. This lead me to believe the description, which said this was a bottoming tap, which it is not. Unless I want to grind off the point of this flute tap, I can not use this tap.

Probably due to my own inexperience with using items like this but the tap would constantly slip from the handle I was using, warped and then finally snapped. Part of the tap I suppose is forever in my rifle now which is unfortunate.

The tip of the tap (which will not make threads) is a bit longer for a bottoming tap but the quality of the tap is OK and it fits very well on the threaded holes of the rifle leaving a clean thread.

its works great. thank you.

A good quality tap, does the job effectively. But, the bottoming taps Im used to are completely flat at the end with the cutting edges all the way to the end, this is not. This is more like a plug tap than a bottoming tap. Still works, but be aware of that.