Big Horn 19264 - Chuck Assembly Service Kit Carbon Steel Metric Tap and Die Set (40 Piece)

all right we are back out here in the classic motorsports workshop today we're going to talk a little bit more about tap and die sets while i'm not a machinist by trade i've been using tap and die type equipment most of my life and it's fairly simple but there are a few tricks that hopefully we can help you with your projects we've got our shop separated into a clean side and this is our fabrication room and this is where our vice is so we're going to do it out here because any time you're using a die you're usually going to want to have a bench vise let's start by discussing what's the difference between a tap and a die so this is a tap used either to clean out a nut or it's used to make internal threads so this is a die it's used to create or clean external threads in the united states we have sae threads either fine or coarse and the way they're measured is threads per inch this is a