Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "Best TAP \u0026 DIE Set? Craftsman vs Irwin, Bosch, Draper, Vermont American, Tekton, GearWrench" video.

@ProjectFarm Good effort to try this, but dang this is something really hard to do without some serious testing jigs. There were some obvious flaws in this and to be fair its a very hard thing to do. On the taps you really needed to use a guide and keep them straight all the way through the hole when your testing for the torque. Its simply way to easy to get a tap out of alignment. At 9:33 its obvious the Pittsburgh (on the left) was not straight. If you do this again I'd suggest finding a way to use a spring loaded guide. On the Dies and Nuts you cant just simply put a die in a vice as you did with the Draper (13:55). No matter how you set it up it will deform because its designed to deform. The fundamental difference between a nut and die is that split in the die allows the die to be compressed and cut deeper. In the proper handle you can start cutting a shallow thread with a die and then cut deeper by compressing the die. Putting that die in a vice compressed it and that's why the rod was so lose in the nut In all the tests I have seen you do this was probably the hardest to do. So you get an A+ for attempting it and trying to be fair to the products.
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