Sharpening taps and dies

Sep 04, 2011 1 Replies

Is this possible by hand/difficult/easy with a Quorn? Any tips for hand sharpening, as I don't have a Quorn?


Thanx


-- Peter Fairbrother


It's possible with a Dremel. For dies run a ball stone inside the chip holes, for taps grind the wall of the gullet under the tapered cutting edge with a cylindrical stone.

My surface grinder is a Delta Toolmaker, with a tilting and swiveling wheel head that Prof. Chaddock may have copied:

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patent drawings are dated 1942. It isn't the best design for grinding mirror-smooth surfaces, but it's versatile.

I don't have a sliding collet tool holder as nice as the Quorn's so I regrind the taper of large second-hand taps between centers on a swivel table. The resulting flat relief hasn't been a problem so far. It could be done in two steps like an end mill to reduce the relief angle behind the edge but still have clearance.

jsw

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