A few weeks ago I bought a job lot of taps and dies through the forum. My intention was to take out what I wanted and then find homes for the rest of it. At the time I did ask if anyone had any specific needs and got a couple of responses (and in one case have even found the specific items that were being searched for too).

The items arrived today (Thanks to Piers and Joe Hovel for doing the transport) and I've started going through them. I had hoped that there would be some order to the collection to make things easier but that is not to be. There are a lot of duplicates, there are gaps in the sequences, item condition can be variable and things are not necessarily grouped by type...

Anyway, there are things there that I am not sure what to do with. My default position is probably scrap the rusty/ obsolete/ broken stuff and think what to do about the rest, but the question is what to do about the following -

  • BA series taps and dies. Not much but I know that occasionally people are looking for this stuff. I may use some but there are duplicates
  • 32 tpi and 40tpi ME threads. A few of these; probably only suited for hard core model makers making from plans pre WW2
  • A couple of 26tpi series taps - similar to above
  • Some large diameter (1") WW & 'gas' (I assume these are probably BSP) taps



This is not a 'for sale' post, but I would like to know if anyone uses these (or know people who do), or will I save time by binning these now?

There were some metric thread taps but most of the rest are WW and NF. I'm assuming that most people would have these if they need them and as the condition is 'used', would there be any demand for these?

Michael


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