•Champion Cutting Tool 302 series carbon steel hand tap 3 piece sets come matched with a taper, bottom and plug tap.
•For hand tapping in maintenance and repair work.
•As well as re-threading applications where extreme thread accuracy and tolerance is not critical.
•These carbon taps will create new threads and clean up damaged threads.
•Taper taps distribute the cutting load across 7-10 threads.
•Used for starting a threaded hole.
•Plug taps are most commonly used, distributing the load across 3-5 threads of champer.
•Bottoming taps have only 1 to 1-1/2 threads of chamfer and are used to tap to the bottom of a blind hole. •Operated in hand tapping wrenches or production tapping heads for general purpose tapping.