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  1. 3rd March 2015, 10:46 AM #1
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    Default 9/32 BSF tap

    Does anyone have a 9/32 BSF tap that I can borrow for a one off job?

    Roger
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  3. 3rd March 2015, 03:48 PM #2
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    Roger. This is on eBay at the moment in Melbourne at that.http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/ENGINEERI...-/350807108502
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    I'll have to check. Hopefully i remember tomorrow....or later on today now.
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    Checked my tap collection. Thought I had one but its BSW not BSF.
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    No luck here, I have a die.......
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    No luck here either 1/4 then 5/16.

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    If sufficiently desperate, you can always make one. Turn a 9/32 BSF thread on a piece of drill rod. ( Or borrow Ewan's die? ) Use a slitting saw ( or file carefully ) to make the flutes with cutting edge. Heat to cherry red and quench. Draw temper to whatever colour, maybe straw. Grind a taper at the start. I've done it when desperation takes over from common sense.

    Ray

    PS I don't have one either.
  9. 5th March 2015, 11:22 AM #8
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    Roger,
    If no else is closer I have an intermediate 9/32 BSF tap I can mail off tomorrow, let me know your address. Don't know how long it is to cross the Nullarbor though.
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  10. 5th March 2015, 10:38 PM #9
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    Default 9/32 tap

    Thanks to Alan C47
    Problem solved

    Roger
  11. 25th March 2015, 01:41 PM #10
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    Funny that I should find this recent thread right now... I'm looking for a 9/32" tap as well...

    It's just for a one-off job as well, need to clear the threads out of a carb (had to drill out the stuck main jet). Went to Bolts & Industrial Supplies at Virginia and best they could tell from the new jet was that it's 9/32". But I don't know the difference between BSW/BSF - how can I work that out?

    Or maybe I should just take it to a local engineering shop and see if they have the tap, just let them clean up the threads for me?
  12. 25th March 2015, 02:12 PM #11
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    The bsw will have 20 tpi and the bsf 26 tpi, should be able to count these.
  13. 25th March 2015, 06:53 PM #12
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    Cheers for that. Well if nothing else I have learnt about BSF and BSW threads.

    I did end up stoping by the engineering shop this arvo, they didn't have any tap to match the thread I have. But he said pretty much the same as RayG - that for about $20 they would just make a tap based on the thread I gave them (on the new jet) and clear out the threads in the carb.

    Got a phone call about 30 mins ago saying it's all done! Problem solved!
    Handy guy to know, he's helped me out with a few small jobs like this now.

    Hope everyone else's tap needs are sorted as well!
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