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Looking for British BA tap/die set, BA 0-10.

No leads on a decent set, but I have some duplicate taps that will likely never see use. Six 10-BA Thread Well brand taps, made in USA, four 2-BA taps and 3 0-BA taps, those two sizes with a logo with three overlapping triangles, which I don’t recognize.

If shipping’s not stupid, happy to drop a few in an envelope.
 
DPittman said:
Full taper, partial taper and bottoming but it's sort of hard to tell on such fine little taps.
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That’s one advantage of having individual sets of taps (but then the disadvantage is having a bunch of little boxes that all look the same regardless of system of measurement).

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(size is on a label on the back)
 
I have just come across a tray full of taps that look new $1.00 apiece but they are all bottom taps anyone here go from #1 directly to #3? It doesn’t sound too good to me I’d hate to break a tap on the other hand I’d only have to buy a #2 tap at regular price and a 3 tap set seems harder to come by.
What are your thoughts?
 
Tom O said:
What are your thoughts?
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I have 3 big tap and die sets. My old Craftsman Imperial course and fine, NoName Metric course and fine, and a large set of big taps and dies course and fine.

I hardly use the first two sets anymore. Instead, for the last 30 years, I've been buying a good set of three dormer taps (tapered, medium tapered, and bottoming) for each thread I need to work with as I need them. I don't buy cheap taps anymore. But I can't justify buying a full set of Dormer taps, so three at a time it is. Dormers are not available in a 3 tap set (that I know of). Instead they come in 3 separate plastic tap boxes. This is one place where organization is allowed in my shop. So, they are all lined up side-by-side in a long row in order of size. With another row for metric. I also have dies in that drawer, but not many. I prefer to single point external threads.

That's a long round about way of saying, that I wouldn't buy a bunch of cheap taps Tom. Unless they are actually high quality taps priced to go, I wouldn't bother. Good taps are usually labelled by the maker. Somebody on here said something along the lines of if the maker isn't proud enough of them to put their name on them, why would you want to buy them? That stuck with me.
 
DPittman said:
That looks very organized to me!?
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It's about as organized as I can get. Even as is, there are lots of missing taps. Which is ok. They are only missing cuz I never needed them yet. I've been thinking that I'll get a plastic tray with short sides to set on top of the metric taps.

The tray will hold imperial and under it will be metric. Doing that would allow me to have 2 rows of imperial and 2 rows of metric while still leaving some empty space for dies and pipe thread taps. Most of my pipe thread taps are in another place right now with other pipe thread stuff.
 
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