Tools & Gear Taps & Dies HSS Hand and Machine Taps

• 3/8" x 18 NPS Bottoming HSS Tap - Goliath
• HSS Bright Finish NPS Hand and Machine Bottoming Tap.
• Pipe taps are much shorter than a similar size of regular hand tap, but the design features are the same.
• Goliath HSS taps provide a high hardness to toughness ratio, compressive and tensile strength, good abrasion resistance and resistance to micro-chipping, ensuring a long tool life.
• National Pipe Straight (NPS) - Parallel - made to American Standards).
• Used for free-fitting mechanical joints where thread sealing is not required.
• Bottoming Taps have a lead of two threads and are used to ensure minimum thread run-out when tapping to the bottom of a blind hole.
• Bottoming Taps are typically preceded by the use of a Taper or Intermediate Tap.
• Manufactured from HSS this general purpose tap is designed for use in medium tensile materials and is for hand or general machine use.