Adam Savage's One Day Builds: Thread Tapping Guide Block!
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Adam shows you how to make a tapping guide block to help make perfectly aligned screw and bolt threads reliably and with ease. It’s a handy accompaniment to the tap set you may have in your own shops, and something that may save you from breaking taps or bolts in the future. Adam dives into the ins and outs of thread tapping, common pitfalls, and his favorite tips and techniques for using these essential tools!
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Thank you! Such a nice video and easy to follow along. Ive been tapping holes for decades and still learned something. You would be so fun to work with on projects Adam.
Tip for removing a broken tap from aluminum, you can chemically dissolve the tap with heated Alum and water. depending on the part you may have to make a clay dam to keep it in place. Works a treat on aluminum heads with broken exhaust bolts as well.
I swear I could hear Adam channeling the spirit of Bob Ross at times while he was Tapping
39:30 Why would you want a tapping block made of SOFT material?
This is the most useful video I've seen of Adam's! And that's saying quite a bit.
as machinist. broken taps are indeed a nightmare. but i have perfected using carbide drills to remove them with out damaging anything. slow and stead and it will come out.
I used to have to do a ton of tapping, mostly 4-40. It is very Zen.
I literally used them with a powertool and i broke like one and i was working with them every day building CNC machines making holes for nuts. It's really easy you just need to have a steady hand and good taps. Of course the harder steel the worse it becomes to tap it.
I’m only five minutes through and having trouble concentrating Adam. I have to ask if you heated a needle or a drillbit to try to save that finger nail? 😂 💅🏻 🩸
(Not sure if that was a “busted myth” by the way)
-your friend from the “freight trucks versus Ferrari“ MythBusters episode .(first episode attempt)
WTF did you do to your left middle finger nail?
As a 31 year old professional toolmaker, rare I know, you are completely correct.
Adam what about a guide for using dies
If the 3 first taps have identical barrel diameter, why did you drill 3 identical bores for each of them instead of 1 bore that will serve all the 3 different taps? After all, you will never use these 3 taps concurrently. Also, think of the stress you will experience, discovering that by absent mindedness, because the bores are identical, you used a bore designated for different tap. You won't be ever able to decide if it was a mistake. That's sucks big time!
Super tutorial! Thank you!
Pfft I'm an electrician I just buy a 6-1. Hole stripped? Tap a new one. Fucked up the tap? Make it bigger. Broke the device? Found out how to make it, "look," not broke.
eeeeeeeeeee…. the driving finger on Adams left hand looks like it's about ready to shed that creepy nail. SO i would suggest a band aide to cover it up so when the camera zooms in on it some people with a strong aversion to finger injuries don't get too creeped out to finish the video….
💡When I have holes to drill that need to be precisely located on a larger quantity run, I'll 3D print a drill guide. I use stacked ¼-20 grade 8 nuts pressed into the appropriately shaped 7/16 hole. The inexpensive nuts aren't affected by the drill bit. Afterwards each hole can be opened up with larger drills.
"Tink", the sound you never want to hear.
Adam, you're old enough to know you shouldn't paint your fingernail with a hammer.
Broken tap: Weld over the hole. Grind/sand and forget about said hole. What hole?? You know they put in extras just for fun…
woulda been great if he pinched that black shit off his finger with those calipers.
how did you mash your finger?
Adam said Atom. Ha
Moly Dee is what I use.
Adam is blind because of the insufficient, Somali tech level of lighting in his dungeon. Zero connection with the camera's inability to focus at times, I'm sure.
"blind" because you can't see through it … would be my guess
Flame polishing? Wow! Ok…now that is something I never knew. TY Adam. I love tapping too….even into hard wood for some projects. I also used to make models and often used the tiny ‘ba’ sized taps and dies (approx 3/32 to 7/32 in American). Back in my school days…I made a small tap wrench from mild steel, very similar to that Starret one, for my metalwork class project…still have it today. 13:45 Ah, the quintessential “Hitch-hikers” quote…How often we bring that one out! lol. Tapping method..yes, I too was taught screw in half a turn, back out a quarter turn, rinse and repeat until the hole is fully tapped…unless it gets tight, then much smaller twists….and I have sheared a couple of taps back in the day.
Can you just say the scientific name of the tapping oil? I'm curious what kind of oil it is, what weight, viscosity, etc…
Oh, that sinking feeling when a tap snaps.
It would’ve been cool to be his son growing up.
I'm sure a lot of people would find tapping relaxing if they only had to drill into acrylic!! 🤣
Adam, you wouldn’t believe how often we use taps in the elevator trade.
as a kid, i used to tap 1.5-2.5mm holes in stainless for a pneumatic engine that i built: only hand tools (no power tools), no lube. i did break a bunch of taps, but i eventually got a hang of it. i did not realize that it was the "hard mode" of tapping, heh.
Savage has a rusty nail on the communication finger
I use 6-32 and 8-32 the most because those are the 2 sizes most used in electrical junction boxes. I install fire alarm systems and there is nothing worse than being up as high as you're allowed to go on a 12' ladder, holding your device in one hand and fighting a screw with the other because the d tew hole is cheaply made and covered in paint
Well done. I am 74 YO, so my tap/drill guide is a wall chart with much bigger font😎
My left middle finger hurts.
Love this.
I bought a set a few years ago, thinking "how hard can this be?"; broke the first three taps. I share the same satisfaction that you show at the start of this video; it is a sublime feeling, which is not appreciated by anyone else unless they have also done it. Tapping and threading is now my first consideration, whether it is steel, aluminium, acrylic or even wood sometimes. I once threaded the thick outer sheath of a signal cable to fit a tapped hole in the side of a plastic enclosure.
have to disagree ya on this Adam tapping is a 2 bit procedure all technique correct but missing 1 step
classic saying for tapping when you go for the quarter back turn is the "first we break the chip, then we break the tap"