I have a bunch of holes to tap in a fixture plate. Due to a programming mistake I broke my last gun tap of the correct size the other day. I don't want to tap 80 holes by hand. Yes, I have more taps arriving tomorrow (I hope), but I'd like to get this plate done and off the machine today. I need the machine for roughing a bunch of blanks.
Anyway, my wild idea was to chuck up a hand plug tap in the T&C grinder and make a slash cut in each flute to mimick the nose shape of a regular gun tap (spiral point tap).
I also need the fixture plate finished to go on one of the other machines so I can get three parts out of the shop.
It won't kill me to have to wait, but I can get fair quality hand taps locally. (Just a couple miles from my shop)
I expect it would work, but I was wondering any of you guys had done it and how it worked for you.