Make your own Small Tap Handle !!
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- Many have commented on the small tap handle I'm using in the steam engine series. This video will show you how to make your own. Its easy to make and a good project you'll have for years.
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I think I'll sneak this in on my wife's "Things to do List" that she has for me :)
LoL. I'm not the only one?!
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I like your v-notch parallels! Gotta make a pair of those.
Very versatile.
Agreed... no video of those??
I so need one of these...magical
Thanks Joe
Little set-screw tip: apply a drop of silver solder to the tip of the set screw. It's very grippy but soft and doesn't mar the tool. And if it deforms, it doesn't wipe out the threads when you take it out. Takes only a minute. NTE did it with set screws on their pillowblock bearings briefly way back, which is where I got the idea.
This handle utilizes a Cap screw because the drive hex is twice the size for better grip. As for the tip, just sand it to a nice 45 degree angle and the threads won't get damaged either. The silver solder is a good idea, so is a brass insert.
@@joepie221 Thank you. Yes, I've done the brass insert as well with great success. Simply drilling a hole, putting in a bit of round, and letting the first tightening swage it in there. I switched to this because it was faster for me. And you get to play with fire.
Just made one in metric and it works very well. Thank you.
Excellent. You'll get a lot of use out of it.
Fantastic....now all I need is a lathe and vertical mill, I have a few small taps and this small handle looks like it could be the beginning of something beautiful.
Saved in the "Future Projects" box.. Thank you Maestro. !
Better feel, better results. Enjoy it Del.
Those V-notch parallels are pretty slick!
They do come in handy.
Making the hole round so the tap slips if it binds has got to be one of the most clever things I saw in a while.
FYI, tap sizes up to and including #6 MS (Machine Screw) or M3.5 (metric) made to USA (ANSI) dimensions, have the same size shank and square, which is .141 diameter. The only thing that varies is the length. So your tap wrench will fit #6 as well. If you have small taps that have different dimensions for shank and length, these are likely German DIN dimensions and are in mm. Great little handle. Dave
Interesting. Thanks.
Thanks joe!!! My 80 year old dad asked me to make him one of those. Thanks for sharing!!
Joe, this is one of those fun shop projects that Metal Shop instructors love to include in their curriculum. It's also one of those tools that often finds its way into your hand. I have a hand full of tap wrenches but I know when it's a small hole to tap this little guy will be the tap wrench I grab! *Its delicate tactility jumps right off the screen!*
Thanks!
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Thanks Joe, love this type of content. You use a lot of custom tooling in your videos and would appreciate any of this type of instruction showing the details of construction. The parallels you use in this video for instance. They seem simple enough but for a novice like me I benefit from observing your setups.
My list of ‘Must Do’ projects keeps letting longer. Thanks, Joe for making it look easy.
Let me know when you need more.
I'm so glad that you are making these videos. This pandimic has put our backs against the wall. You have a great and clear explanation. I like the techniques that you use.
this just wandered to the top of my to do on the lathe list
Thanks Joe
very cool little gismo and an easy fab
I always drill the bigger hole first when going 5XD or deeper. That way the smaller drill doesn't have the long travel in and out, in which there's the opportunity to pack with chips and break.
Good approach for sure.
That's also a good approach for doing larger counterbores as it prevents the drill from snatching, especially good when drilling and counterboring brass.
Perfect little project for a cold snowy day here in Edmonton AB. I think I will make 2 or 3 different sizes👍
Yet again a simple project that is incredibly useful. Perfect project for beginners and experienced machinists alike!
Awesome the v block parralels are a great idea........honestly this is my favorite type of content on your channel the everyday application stuff. Thanks for the heat treat advice.........see you on the next one
Just finished mine, didn’t take long at all, shoulda done it years ago, thanks, Joe!🤩
For a fast project it is very well thought out. Something so simple but most useful in the end. Out-friggen-standing! Thank you, getting one to go in toolbox.
Glad you enjoyed it! You'll use it a lot.
Lots of time here now, I watched this twice as I need to have one of these in my small tap container. I may try aluminum as I am going to try the Taig on this project first. Thanks for the tutoring Joe, much appreciated!
Everytime I watch, I learn something new!. Another great lesson and the craftiest of devices for keeping those alloy jaws in place. Thanks again Joe.
appreciate the unique innovation/style/solution
can openers from the store don't seem to last long
Thanks Joe, another great video. I restore vintage magnetos here in the UK, so I only ever use small taps. I’ve got some small tap wrenches I’ve picked up from various places, but none are quite this small. I might well make one of these, simple yet very effective.
Thanks for your time making these videos, I’m loving the steam engine build.
Joe, your content is great. Thank you so much,
I have hundreds of 1/4-20 blind holes to tap at work, made one yesterday with only a Atlas 618 lathe and a drill press with a cross feed vice.
Thanks for the inspiration.
I like it! Not sure what I’ll make first, the tap handles (I’ll be making several) or those handy soft jaws you had. Thanks Joe!
Those soft jaws come in handy.
I just found my next project. Thank you Joe. Already made the tap follower and the tailstock die holder.
You'll like this one as much.
@@joepie221 I'm pretty sure I will - I tend to do a lot of work with 2-3mm screws
Love this. Built one of Mr Pete’s Starret tap wrenches a few years back. Thanks for another great design.
Excellent little tool and is on my want to make list, thanks Joe.
That there is as handy as a watch pocket! Look forward to including this to my tool box. Thanks you sir!
I love how you mention the equivalent sizes in mm
Thanks Joe. I have something similar that I have had for over 30 years. It is the T handle from a high pressure 1/4 inch stainless valve. It was already drilled and tapped like you did yours and I have used it thousands of times.
I like that design. I have a similar size Starrett that I like a lot. I will make multiples of this handle so that I can leave the popular sizes set up all the time.
Brilliant! Just made one. Thanks Joe for sharing all this on here, it really is so helpful, great ideas and an excellent teacher.
Thank you. Home made tools are fun.
Yep ... just made myself one .... and your right .... its a brilliant little tool ... Thank you ... Cheers.
Provides amazing feedback.
Beautiful craftmanship.Thank you.
Thank you very much!
Built mine Saturday .I have to say this handle is super sensitive i like it you can actually feel the spring in the tap . Def. helps to save small taps Thanks Joe.
It sure will. Its a worthy project.
Nice looking piece, Joe! Usefulness is the only thing that outpaces the simplicity and looks! I think I'll knock out several of these the next time I fire up my lathe! Thanks for another great video! 👍
Another nice little project added to my list
I feel like you're speaking directly to me. I just did this wrong in a video two weeks ago :P
Love that one of yours Joe. I do have one of similar size which I've had for decades - back in the UK a company "Eclipse" made a very handy small handle - it's served me well. Yours is much prettier :)
Nice! Thanks Joe for another project
Thanks for sharing Joe a handy little tool to have and use,
Love the quickie Joe. Thanks!😎
Beautiful work for such a utilitarian object. Love your attention to detail.
Thank you very much!
perfect beginners project, will be making one soon, thanks Joe.
I love good home made tools like this, making one this week end, from Coventry in UK,🇬🇧👍.
Brill been looking for one of these for ages going to make one this afternoon cheers Joe.
Thank you, your videos are really good. And encouraging.
That's a nice little tool, I'm about to finally put a dro on my Bridgeport clone and I'll have to make one of these first just for some added safety to make sure I don't break a tap off in the machine
Very nice handle. Good video. Stay healthy!
Good shop project,I like it.Thanks for the video😎
Thanks, Joe! I appreciate all of your videos. Always at least a nugget to take away!
Show and tell can be valuable, but I like to include something you can take with you.
Lol funny you made this video. I went and made one as soon as it saw it in the earlier installment. Already used it several times. Totaly worth the time to make!!
Thanks for that Joe, I've been looking at your handle for some time, thinking about making one to go with small modelling taps.
Beautiful first project on a lather. Very handy too.
Thanks Joe! Off to make one right now.
Thanks Joe.. another tool to add to my to-do list.. keep up the good work!..
Made one.. took me 2-1/2 hours after I thought it would be a 20 minute job!
Really happy though and thank you Joe for the tips.
Time well spent.
Great piece. Thanks for your dedicated work and nice explicit video. Great.
Glad you liked it!
Thanks Joe brilliant work
Quite a handy tool, thanks ( again) Joe !
A really nice tap holder!
Gonna make one this weekend. Thanks Joe.
Have fun!
the jaws on the vice are well rounded and no fear of catching a splinter --makes a difference you can tell just by lookin ~
Well done. I’ll follow your design for my workshop new tools.
Very nice simple handle that’s very clean. Absolutely love it. Just wish I could afford a lathe.
I needed this video last week 👍👍
just have, been using a very small adjustable wrench, 15 mins to make, years to have the idea thanks Joe
Thanks for sharing those details. I have been wanting to make one since I saw you using one a few weeks ago on your 1:12 lathe build. Several nuggets in here that I would not have thought of (until I had to make a 2nd one LOL)
This little handle grabs hard and gets a lot of use. Go ahead and make one.
Thanks for the video Joe.
I am definitly make one, thanks Joe
Thanks Joe.
I need to make one at some stage.
Nice job
Congratulations on reaching the 100k+ subs!
Very well deserved!
i went straight out and made one, it turned out tops. thanks for that.
You'll use it a lot. It gives you great control with small taps.
Nice work Joe - added to the MUST_MAKE_ME _1 list
Well timed video. A couple days ago I had to use a M2.5x0.45 tap into 4140 and used a pin vice because I had nothing else. I'll be whipping one of these up today!
Cheers!
Re-post a comment with how you liked it.
@@joepie221 it's so cute but worked great!.
I'm leagues off your skill but every day in the shop makes me a little better.
Thanks so much for your dedication in sharing your knowledge.
I'll make one today. Thanks, I enjoyed
Nice I'm going to make one for myself. Thank you!
Very useful, a nice tool, many thanks
Now that you have finally answered THAT question I hope you are planning to put a permanent link to this video in all your future descriptions, because you KNOW people are going to keep asking about it!
Joe, Thank You for another fantastic tutorial...... 👍👍😎👍👍
Thanks as always. Great idea.
Excellent content- as usual !! Thanks, Joe.
Glad you enjoyed it
Awesome work!
Quick update, Joe. My students are really enjoying your videos as part of their online learning when we have to close campus during this pandemic. I appreciate the effort you put into creating this content and it gives me the opportunity to cover additional methods and techniques we probably wouldn't cover during the ten months I have to teach them the basics of manual machining. Thanks for your hard work and stay safe out there.
Feel free to mention the school and course.
@@joepie221 Gordon Cooper Technology Center, Precision Machining I (manual).
Hey Joe, thanks for the video. I was going to ask you for some information on the tap handle but with this video coming out you beat me to it! I have used a small pin vise when tapping with a #0 - 80 and #1 - 72 taps and that makes for an interesting day when things don't go good for you. You and the family have a safe and Happy Thanksgiving, Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.
Thank you. Same to you and yours.
thanks, I will be making some for all my small taps
I saw this the other day and didn't have time to comment. While I was out at a friends shop I made one of these from, you guessed it, A gr 8 bolt. His ancient 3 speed belt drive lathe only turns automotive armatures and alternator rotors so it is different to see steel cuttings on the tray. Of course high speed tooling works best. What a little beauty.. As you say the feedback is great. Thanks a bunch. This was fun. Now I have to make another one as my partner fell in love with it so it lives in his tool box now, LOL.
You better make a few.
@@joepie221 They will make great xmas gifts. Thanks again Joe P.
Really appreciated... Thanks for sharing it help very much. Thanks sir.
Good video Joe. Several years ago I made one similar to that, but based on the one Tubalcain (Mr. Pete) shows in one of his videos. Used a home-made broach in the mill to cut a square corner for the tap to bear against, not sure that detail is worth the effort, and it ends up with the screw bearing on the corner of the tap square end, which isn't very secure. I do like the tapered handles and did that with mine too.
I made one today! Great little project to get me out of a months long not feeling like doing anything... (Austin TX)
Very very nice.
Thanks.
Lovely job Joe
Nice tool to add to the box.
I found it works better to drill and tap the hole first before you turn down the outside. That way the collet has a better grip and won’t slip when tapping and I used an 8/32 screw. Thanks neat project!
Life become easier when we watch your video joe thank you alot.
Happy to help
There are two kinds of people , my friend.... the ones who break taps and the ones who listen to Joe.
Cool tap slip trick!