Dear all .... I'm sure there are those on the forum who know far more about tools than me.
Just had to tap out a thread in an awkward place (no room to swing a normal tap-holder)
Why don't they make the shank of taps as a hex rather than a square?
A six-sider would still grip in a tap-holder well enough (if you're having to gorilla it down the hole you've done something very wrong) but it would give the option of using standard small sockets with the associated variety of extensions/t-bars/driver handles etc for those times you're not just tapping something neatly flat in a vice.
Seems like a no-brainer ... what am I missing.
K
Ps ... annoyingly the current choices of square shank don't even jam in a socket as a bush-fix, but always fall between two consecutive sizes.
