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Don't know if this is the right place for this but, I'm trying to tap m8x1 in a piece of GR5 titanium, do I need special taps, 'cos my normal tap wont even try! pulling my hair out here!😒
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Sounds like a good time to call your tooling rep. They will have a direct line to the tap manufacturing engineers who can advise him and then you on what to get and what sort of cutting/tapping lube to use.
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Take a look at this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASd1VysHX64
There are several other YouTube vids on working with titanium.
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Thanks Dr Stan, so that looks like a yes then to the special tools! 😎
Cheers.
Roy.
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