welcome back to Steve Robb reviews today this is the subject raid here when you want to tap out
some holes and put some threads in there and what do I use well I don't use this I haven't used one
of these and years I'll show you what I use and it's much better than this thing like this is
as far as I'm concerned completely useless and I don't like it at all so it comes in handy I mean
this is perfectly fine for just a regular do it yourself or if you want to make one hole here and
there you know just to tap out a hole it's fine I'm gonna show you what I do I'm gonna show you
what I use and I'm gonna demonstrate a job I have lined up for multiple tops to put a whole bunch
of quarter inch 20 holes in some stock and I'm talking a lot of holes so let's get to it right
here and I'll show you what I use well let's start off at this end here here's just your regular top
and die set you can get anywhere they're pretty cheap and they work fantastic but I don't like the
style of tops and I'm gonna show you why so this is what we got going on here and I'll explain how
all this stuff works and here we got four holes we're gonna tap out on four holes and I explained
to you why I will not use that thing anymore so let's get to it right now well let's take a look
at the the ones at this end right here first and here's pipe thread tops and if you take a look
right here I'm going to show you the difference here but you can see how they're pointed at the
end and this one here is a is a custom one right there and then if you take a look at these ones
here you can see how square and flat the are at the end so there is quite a difference between
the pointy end there and this one these one here they do work fine but I prefer if you're going to
get a set these ones here are so much easier to work with and I'll show you why in a minute and
if you take a look at this one right here I have taken this and I've welded a top on it so this
is just an old socket a 3/8 drive i weld it on the top and you can do that that's pretty simple to do
this one here I had a special job for this where I actually had to use a wrench on it as well so you
could you know you could start off put this in your your Chuck like your driver like that and
that was for one job and I've used this many times and sometimes you do have to go slow so
I'll put a gear wrench on there and you can just manually move it back and forth and this one here
that's just the regular style you usually get and these are okay I like this and I want to
demonstrate this one here to you right here I'm going to show you this one here now this
one here I don't think it's ever going to come in let me just see if it will here but if you
I'm not sure can you see that made in Germany I got that for a gift and this has to be by
far my favorite to use for topping especially just for small taps and I'll show that one too
and this here this is a set I got up and these are made by Irwin if I can if it'll show here I
don't think it's too shiny but they're made by Irwin and these are just terrific and they're
both 3/8 Drive and of course they're smaller sizes on the left and this one here goes up
to a half-inch so they are just terrific and of course you can use them with your ratchet
so let me just demonstrate this one here for you first well I don't even know where you would buy
this so you know I'm not too sure but it's got a little bit of a lever on here little slide and
in the middle is neutral and guys this is just terrific it's a ratchet and this ratchets in
just terrific and of course you can just go it the other way and ratchet back the other
way this is ideal I really like this style I mean compared to using stuff like this guys III haven't
used this in years I wouldn't even go near this kind of stuff anymore so for this one here is
just terrific I wish I could show you like a link below I'll see if I can put the link for the air
ones in there because I use them a lot more than this but this here is nice especially if you get
into a spot and you just want to ratchet it you don't have the movement or like you say you can
use one of these and just snap it on your ratchet and these you know these are just terrific as well
I use these quite a bit and I've adapted them for all kinds of different fixtures and today
I'm gonna demonstrate how I have to do a job where I have to put multiple holes in some bar stock and
I have to have quarter-inch 20 threaded bolts to go in and there's two alternatives I could
have done it with one of these rib nuts but you know what that's not going to work out too good
and I'll explain why so as you could see look how small these fasteners are and you could see here
and look how big a hole I would have to make for the ribs not to go in there the rivet would have
been fine but of course the rib nut does not sit flush and that's the problem we're running
into we've got two pieces of bar stock gonna go on top each other and this has a lip sitting up there
that you can't have so I have to go with this here and I'll show you I'm gonna do some drilling here
and I'll show you how easy it is to do and why I prefer to use these or the other home homemade
ones that I've used for years and years and years before these even were existing I've only had
these for maybe six years and the other ones I've been using like 2025 years ago and I just adopted
them to a 3/8 drive and they've worked out great so let's start a little bit of topping here and
I'll show you how I do it well in this particular situation as you can see it is going into a hollow
tube so you can't really go inside there and put nuts on the inside so you have to thread them and
I have to do about 60 holes apparently and put these fasteners in so I'll show you how easy
it is when you have the right tools all I do is I just get you know just some tap lubricant put
it over top and let's get to it here and that's how easy it is then we just take our fasteners
and they all thread in there nice now could you imagine if you had to take the old t-handle and
start doing 60 holes there you go well I hope you enjoyed that I'll just show you how close
here because you could probably get a better look at it here but here's the flat cut style
that I really don't care for and it makes it more difficult to try and do that this is the style
here and you could see it's pointed and they're just terrific and this is the rig rate here I
mean it's so easy you just snap it in and out and it just works terrific I wouldn't do it any other
way I really like these and when you take a look well when you take a look at years ago I made this
up and you know what uh this is what happens is you make stuff up like this yourself and then
years later a corporation comes out with an idea like this I don't know how long this has been out
guys but yeah I wouldn't go with this anymore I would just buy a set of these and they're just
terrific so I hope you like this and if you ever seen this channel before you want to subscribe and
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