Tapping

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I know this bothers me more than it should.
What do you guys think?

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[Jeff]

I know this bothers me more than it should.
What do you guys think?

What bothers you about it? Nothing looks out of the ordinary for what he's doing.

We've had one of those FlexArm tappers for over 10 years. It's great, we also have one that installs helicoils.

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I once worked for a shop that felt like deburing in the machine was a waste of time.
They preferred to have the operators debur while the machine was running.
I like to let the machine do as much as it possibly can.
That's what it's for.
I could see if you had cast holes that needed tapping or a job coming off a manual mill or something.
It bugs me to see office guys push their "great" ideas on the poor operators on the floor.
But then again I might just be an old grump.

[Jeff]

You'd be surprised at how often you'd use one if you had one. Let's say you get parts back from HT and it has all that shit in the holes, grab an old tap, pop it into the arm and run it thru the holes.
Or the lathe operators need to tap some holes, or run an oversize tap before HT. etc..
Their arms go up to a 2" tap capacity.
But the Helicoil install arm saved us so many man hours it's crazy.

[JakeL]

Seriously, machine does it and you get consistency every time.

Speeding up a job last week and my deburr tool was running a little too fast to get all the way into the corners. Straight edges ~.010 edge break, corners ~.005 edge break.

Asked my boss if I should slow that down to get a consistent .010 everywhere, his response "you think our deburr guys have a steadier hand than that? As long as the edge is broken it looks good to me"