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I placed the order for some of the taps this morning, so the offer in what might have been a sort of "group buy" is closed. I am also gathering the additional pieces for the kits I have in mind. The taps will not likely be here until late in January, so I have plenty of time to develop the kits.
So it looks like my "Please count me in as well" in post #22 on 11/30 didn't make it into your list of interested folks in your post #42 on 12/4, which I didn't see until 1/26, thus the follow-up request in post #63.
If a PM was required to show interest, I must have missed that.
So it looks like my "Please count me in as well" in post #22 on 11/30 didn't make it into your list of interested folks in your post #42 on 12/4, which I didn't see until 1/26, thus the follow-up request in post #63.
If a PM was required to show interest, I must have missed that.
Except that the topic of those three posts is not the same. Up to your post 22 the only thing that you might have been counted in on was the use of the tap by borrowing it on whatever terms might exist. And you will still be "counted in" on that program. There is no list however. The idea of buying some additional taps for individual ownership did not come up unti Sean introduced that idea after your post 22. You were not counted in on that later consideration.
Except that the topic of those three posts is not the same. Up to your post 22 the only thing that you might have been counted in on was the use of the tap by borrowing it on whatever terms might exist. And you will still be "counted in" on that program. There is no list however. The idea of buying some additional taps for individual ownership did not come up unti Sean introduced that idea after your post 22. You were not counted in on that later consideration.
The taps came some time ago, but I got put off trying to figure out how to get the residue of the aluminum plug out enough to clean the threads up with the tap. I had drilled one of my plugs out with a half inch bit and that wasn't near enough and beside I drilled it crooked and got into the steel threads in the hole. Finally, today I was able to open up the remainder of the plug with a 5/8 inch bit, but even that was not enough to allow me to use the tap.. Then I found that I had to use a small round file and work as much of the aluminum plug out with that until I was finally able to clean the rest of it and the rust out of the inside threads with the tap.
I think now I'll try to finish up the "kits" with some 5/8 inch bits turned down to run in a 3/8 inch drill chuck and then be able to get them in the mail.
I now wonder when you say that you have drilled the plug out what you have actually accomplished? Is there any of the plug still in the hole? And if so, how much?
I found the thread about the Tow Hook Tap program I had started some time ago and decided to bump it in honor of Joe's recent inquiry about the tap. Here is a picture of the items I had intended to include in the Tap Kit. I think I will go ahead with it, even given the limitations, and I'll explain the items shortly in another post.
Last edited by Jerry Feather; 08-03-2019 at 02:00 PM.
I had planned for the items shown to be encased in a wood container milled to fit all the items, and I still have the blanks for that next to my Mill where I was cutting the slots. I think they will all fit in it when I revise the layout. The items, from left to right, are, first a 3/8 inch left hand drill bit to be used after one has rounded out the hex hole trying to get the plug out. With it one should drill about 2/3 the way thru the plug, then with the next item, which is a driving ram, put the small end of the ram in the hole and start striking it a few times with a heavy ball peen hammer, or similar, to see if that will break some of the corrosion loose. Next one can drill the 3/8 inch hole all the say thru then with the larger bit, a 15.25 mm left hand bit (.600") drill again about 2/3 of the way thru and use the striking ram again. If no success, next one will drill the .600 hole all the way thru then drive the easy out into the hole and with the socket and extension and a 3/8 inch breaker bar try to turn the plug out, or what is left of it. With no success so far this is where the program becomes difficult because the hole is too small to use the tap and will need to be made larger, probably with a round file and a lot of elbow grease, so that only the threads are left. Then I think the tap can be used a little at a time to dig the threads out. Finally the tap will clean the threads in the hole. The socket shown fits both the shank of the easy out and of the tap.
Jerry thats a lot of great ideas in one package
I would also suggest that you include a 6 inch long 1/8 drill bit to drill through the plug FIRST.
then spray PB blaster into the hole.
NOTE this will put the Blaster on the backside of the corroded plug and begin to eat the corrosion,
after hammering the plug a few times with a sledge and a few days of PB blaster application the plug may come free
Or these nice drills and inserts can be used.
01-25-2018, 07:11 PM
