And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Having a tap & die set on the shelf has helped me more than once. I have two, metric & SAE, not real spendy but not the cheapest either & worth whatever it was I spent on those way back when the first time I "needed" one. I think I bought the metric when I was putting my first Subaru 2.2 engine into a VW Vanagon... That would 2007-2008, I already had the SAE set.
I've used several oriental sets over the years and found that the worst things in them are the holders: the cutting tools have been ok. I was going to write fine but that would have been coarse . . . Anyway - if you can find olde worlde wrenches and take care using them the cutters will do the job.
While my many taps and dies + related tools of various SAE and metric sizes number more than this set, sadly the organization is more like a cluster eff in my tool box!
200+ bucks for the lowest quality tooling you can buy. You can get Irwin/Hansen (consumer quality) for 40 bucks less, and equivalent sets for half the price. Or you could just buy a quality tap or die as needed and eventually have a set of the stuff you actually USE, rather than a set where 50+% of the pieces are never touched.
An alternative I was taught is to buy the medium quality set and as you realize which ones wear out first, replace them with better quality. Those are the ones you actually USE. I bought a cheap Horrible Freight set. At best, the pieces could thread uncooked macaroni. The things I use the most are in the drawer.
Having a tap & die set on the shelf has helped me more than once. I have two, metric & SAE, not real spendy but not the cheapest either & worth whatever it was I spent on those way back when the first time I "needed" one.
ReplyDeleteI think I bought the metric when I was putting my first Subaru 2.2 engine into a VW Vanagon... That would 2007-2008, I already had the SAE set.
I have Irwin SAE and metric sets. They mostly sit on the bottom shelf of the workbench, but have been very useful from time to time.
ReplyDeleteI've used several oriental sets over the years and found that the worst things in them are the holders: the cutting tools have been ok. I was going to write fine but that would have been coarse . . . Anyway - if you can find olde worlde wrenches and take care using them the cutters will do the job.
ReplyDeleteWhile my many taps and dies + related tools of various SAE and metric sizes number more than this set, sadly the organization is more like a cluster eff in my tool box!
ReplyDelete200+ bucks for the lowest quality tooling you can buy. You can get Irwin/Hansen (consumer quality) for 40 bucks less, and equivalent sets for half the price. Or you could just buy a quality tap or die as needed and eventually have a set of the stuff you actually USE, rather than a set where 50+% of the pieces are never touched.
ReplyDeleteAn alternative I was taught is to buy the medium quality set and as you realize which ones wear out first, replace them with better quality. Those are the ones you actually USE. I bought a cheap Horrible Freight set. At best, the pieces could thread uncooked macaroni. The things I use the most are in the drawer.
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