Fab Lab Skill Builder: Tension/Compression Tapping

January 23, 2013 by: Andrew Grevstad

We’ve had a few ques­tions on how to use the ER-series Tension/Compression Tap­ping Heads.  Here’s a short Fab Lab Skill Builder Video with some tips for success.


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Check out the revised tech­ni­cal doc­u­ment, CNC tap­ping Guide­lines for a detailed pro­gram­ming dis­cus­sion with examples.

Here are the TTS ER Tap hold­ers we are using, if you’re inter­ested in get­ting one of these to try out:

Also, here’s our pre­vi­ous Fab Lab Video on using the Pro­cu­nier Tru­Tap Auto-Reversing Tap­ping Head


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With over ten years of pro­fes­sional expe­ri­ence in advanced man­u­fac­tur­ing sys­tems, dig­i­tal design tools, and applied soft­ware, Andy Grevs­tad has worked in prod­uct devel­op­ment and tech­ni­cal sup­port for Tor­mach since 2008. Grevs­tad has received engi­neer­ing degrees from Michi­gan Tech­no­log­i­cal Uni­ver­sity and a M.S. and Uni­ver­sity of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a reg­u­lar con­trib­u­tor to Dig­i­tal Machin­ist mag­a­zine and also blogs weekly about CNC milling and related top­ics on the Tor­mach blog, Milling Around.

One Response to “Fab Lab Skill Builder: Tension/Compression Tapping”

  1. spencerrule says:
    February 12, 2013 at 1:42 pm

    Thanks for putting this up! This sure beats tap­ping by hand. Now all I need to do is fig­ure how to afford a mill.

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