Recommended feed rate: General steel: 6-15m/min; harder steel: 5-10m/min; stainless steel: 2-7m/min; cast iron: 8-10m/min. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice. These come with a vap surface treatment making them suitable for use on Stainless Steel (also good for Steel).

Manufactured with precision ground flutes for producing accurate thread forms, Sherwood Taps are available in all the popular thread forms and as straight Flute Hand Taps in 3 leads, Fluteless, Spiral Flute, or Spiral Point Machine Taps and also Long Series. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products.Straight flute design, used for through hole and shallow blind hole tapping, not for blind hole tapping. We started exhibiting at model engineering exhibitions in 1994 and realised from the shows that people wanted quite specialised tooling for their machines and also a wide range of tooling which they could adapt to suit their needs. Sherwood HSS Taps are the general purpose option for thread cutting in most materials including steel, some stainless steels, cast irons and non-ferrous materials such as Aluminium, Brass and many others. The taps come in a case made of impact-resistant PP (polypropylene), ensuring that the taps stay safe if the case is damaged or dropped.

Spiral point taps are engineered for efficient chip removal, while the flute design aids in smooth and precise threading operations. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. These Spiral Point Taps are suitable for cutting 25mm /1” thick material due to the safety recess at the end of the thread.HSS Machine Tap is a specialized tool meticulously crafted for creating metric coarse threads in metal materials. These Spiral Point/Gun Nose thread taps are designed for redirecting chips out of the hole whilst threading for a clean and precise result.