Does anyone have any suggestions about the best source for small BA taps?
Sods law operated on me last night; I needed to tap about 2 dozen 12 BA holes, did the first 2 as a trial run, put the tap in a pin vice to clean out the thread before trying the screw in it - and promptly dropped it. The aforementioned law required that it landed point down and snapped off the threading bit.
Web searches have give me prices ranging up to nearly forty quid, with most sellers not going that small, and quite a few that do only offering cut thread carbon steel taps.
If I can find a reliable source of quality taps at around the £5-7 mark I think I'll buy a stock - they seem to be well on the way to endangered species status, but they are still pretty well universal in 7mm scale modelling.
David