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breaking off a tap?!

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Subject: breaking off a tap?!
From: nicholas harteau <nrh@ikami.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 18:15:20 -0600
I can't even believe it.  I was tapping some threads into what basically
amounts to aluminum stock (an aftermarket upper tailgate for my truck)
and I broke the lovely tap off inside the pillar!

Not only that, it's a brand new tap.

The break is on a pretty extreme angle.

I have no idea how to get this out besides take it to a machine shop and
pray.  Any ideas?

-- 
nicholas harteau
nrh@ikami.com

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