Drill America - DWT60780 3/8"-24 UNF High Speed Steel Left 4 Flute Plug Tap, (Pack of 1)

“Drill America” is made in CHINA?! Please tell me this is some kind of stock mixup?The tool I got appears to be well made and has well formed threads so I’m giving it 3 stars. I went out of my way to buy American and I don’t know what happened.

This tap was so brittle it broke like glass. Yes I know how to tap. I tap #2 up all the time. This thing broke tapping copper with cutting fluid. Stay away JUNK!

I suspect most people who would seek out a product like this on Amazon, know exactly what they are buying and know how to use it. I planned to tap about 30 holes with this product, using the correct and exact letter size drill bit (which aren't that common on their own), centered in a chuck with cutting fluid. The tap got about 1/2" into the part before it snapped off like glass and ended up with the fragment stuck in the part. Whatever cheap powdered metal this is made out of, it definitely isn't HSS.

The photos used to sell the 6mm taps are actually photos of bigger taps, the photos show threads being bigger than the shaft. The 6mm taps the threads are the same size or smaller than the shaft, this prevents from making deeper tap holes. I am guessing the tooling is to expensive or the tap strength might be weakened if they made the shaft smaller than the threads.I ordered 8 taps of various brands and they all did the same thing - show a photo of say the 10mm tap and pretend it's the same scale and design as the 6mm.This drill america tap amazon did not ask me to ship it back, so I got it for free:https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00DLCT6OU/I have no use for it, but maybe if every customer does this somebody will get the message and put up the correct photo.

I've gotten a few of these from Drill America as well as some other brands...some are clearly the same manufacturer and some are different. The ones from Drill America are quite inconsistent in varying aspects. The steel is a decent hss, not the cruddy low quality M50 type, so that's good. For this tiny M2 bottoming tap the teeth are ground well and the tip looks good. About 11mm of depth with a taper up to the shank. The square flats are a little rough but once again they flubbed the heel. It's chamfered but not to a point, nor is there an indent on the flat. This makes it hard to use a follower and with very small taps like this, you really should use a follower/guide to ensure that you are plumb with the hole. Failure to do so almost guarantees tap breakage (true for large taps as well but you have a lot more room for error there, generally). I'd say if you need standard quality, pay the difference and get a good tap. These are not terrible, though, and they are a LOT better than the junk that comes from many vendors or in those watchmaker tap kits (stay away from those unless you're spending big bucks on a set). I got the 3pc M2.5 set on this order as well, and that was a small disappointment but again, they're ok.

I was changing out parts on the front end suspension of my Nissan Frontier and accidentally stripped one of the bolt mounting holes for the driver's side sway bar bushing. This "unicorn" thread size could not be found in any auto parts store or hardware store in the Atlanta area (I called all of them). It was thanksgiving and I was supposed to drive to Myrtle Beach to meet my wife for the holiday but the search for this tap delayed me by a day. Amazon had it and shipped it and it got to me by the next day. I had the truck fixed and back together within 10 minutes of getting the tap. Thanks Amazon!

My boiler was leaking water at the gasket for the domestic hot water coil. When I remove the bolts that attached the coil to the cast iron boiler, of course three of the bolts sheered off. So, I drilled the center of the bolts out and used an "easy out". And of course, it immediately broke off in the drilled out hole (why do these never work and yet I keep trying them?) Eventually got them out, but managed to mangle the threads in the cast iron with a drill bit. I used this to chase the threads in the cast iron.It worked PERFECT.Like a hot knife through butter. I was not cutting new threads in a un-tapped hole, but I have no doubt this wouldn't have a problem with it. Got the new bolts with this tap and they threaded right in no issues. Now, hope the red Permatex does the job and I have leak free years ahead.Overall, I would absolutely recommend this to anyone. If it tore through cast this easy, most anything else will be even easier.

I used this one in #6-48, and similar, bought from Home Depot. Comparing, this one does not cut well at all and eventually it snapped. The difference in quality was DRASTIC. This is a very poor quality knock-off tool that I would not recommend. I had to finish the job with inexpensive Home Depot set that was way better.

This set of taps is NOT what is shown in the photo to be a set of three taps taper-mid-bottom taps but what arrives is a single tap. Don’t be fooled by the photo and lack of item description like I was, buy elsewhere!

A real mess of random taps. In bulk cardboard box.11 of them appear to be M5x0.8. One is unmarked.11 of them are 4 fluted as ordered. 1 is 3 fluted.6 of them are actually taper as ordered. Got 5 plugs and 1 bottoming.6 different manufacturers because the markings, machining and finishes are unmatched. One is a three fluted made in England pretty neat. 4 are marked china. 7 are of unknown origins probably china.I can make the right sized threads, but quality and consistency are all over the place...

Quality looks ok (haven't used it yet) but they sent the wrong tap. I ordered the bottoming tap and got a tapered one. Not going to bother returning for the 7 bucks but disappointed I need to order another part and wait again to finish my projects now.

Good quality product that did what I needed it to do and that it advertised it would do.

So I bought this thinking the description was right and the picture is wrong. Nope.Make no doubt, this is not a 3 inch round 1-1/2 x 8 threading die, but a tiny little tap.Repeated emails to amazon didn't solve the problem so now you know.