Originally Posted by Steve_H
Any one tried to find a good "bottoming" tap?

I grind the first few threads off a taper tap or a plug tap, and it becomes a bottoming tap. Those threads are the first ones to get dull or chip anyway, so I've usually got a spare taper tap around in the more common sizes for threading drilled holes where no threads existed before.
Jerry

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