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Re: Fast spiral tap speeds

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Originally Posted by Cory View Post
It's going to be really hard to align that straight enough with a hand drill. I don't ever tap by hand with spiral flute taps because of that reason.

I would go as slow as possible until you know you're aligned and then you could bump it up to a couple hundred rpm
Ok, so I'll drill and just use my hand taps since I know that works.

Thanks to the others that posted, I agree that I've "over thunk" an easy job.
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