I am questioning my sanity....

[irving2008]

Well the last two days I have spent a lot of time generating scrap :cry:

Drills breaking off in holes, holes bored too big because I forgot the clicks on the boring head were radius not diameter ( I'd remembered right up to the last but one cut :sad: ) and finally when I get everything else right, I went to tap out a 3mm hole and the tap snapped off in the hole... thought it felt tight, wasn't till after it snapped I looked closely... the plug tap was a 1/8BSW not an M3... this was a brand new 3tap set from RDG still in its plastic wrapping... never imagined one of them would be wrong.

Argggggggghhhhh

[John S]

Look on the bright side, if you had took up knitting you would have probably dropped a stitch .........................

[ptjw7uk]

Yes but you could then have corrected it but in metal....

Oh yes and those days when I had wished I had stayed in bed... but thats another story..

Peter

[Lee Roberts]

Look on the bright side, if you had took up knitting you would have probably dropped a stitch .........................

:lmao: lol:rofl: !, gota love john !

[irving2008]

OK, in a bid to recover my sanity and not have to start over, has anyone ever used this broken tap remover liquid? It sounds too good to be true!

[dickieto]

OK, in a bid to recover my sanity and not have to start over, has anyone ever used this broken tap remover liquid? It sounds too good to be true!

hi irving
i saw this on another engineering site and remembered this thread.

Tom..

[pavlo]

His feedback is good so he's not a cowboy seller. I reckon it would be worth a try.

[John S]

Yes it works but it's slow.

It's only Alum so if you have any kicking about use that, you don't actually say what material , this only works with non ferrous.

Heath food shops sell Alum, it's a spice.

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[irving2008]

Yes it works but it's slow.

It's only Alum so if you have any kicking about use that, you don't actually say what material , this only works with non ferrous.

Heath food shops sell Alum, it's a spice.

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Alum = Aluminium Potassium Sulphate which he also sells @ 6.95 instead of 7.99 for 500g. I am working in Aluminium...

I'm going to redo the part, but I'll get some of this stuff and try it...

[irving2008]

His feedback is good so he's not a cowboy seller. I reckon it would be worth a try.

Yes, the supplier is OK, bought my Vactra oil and Catsrol SUDS stuff fom him in the past. He does a lot of useful chemicals that are hard to get elsewhere.