[Jewelry making - Article 00004] - [Orchid] Matching tap and die?

[David Basile]

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hi,

    i have a slight problem figuring this one out... i am tapping
    stainless steel balls w/ a 1-72 tap, and threading a rod w/ a 1-72
    die to thread into the ball for body jewelry barbells....  the
    problem i am having is that it is EXTREMELY hard to screw the rod
    into the ball... now, recently i had found a barbell that i bought a
    few years ago for myself, and i noticed that the tapped hole was
    slightly larger than the ones i was making myself... so my question
    is, if i threaded a rod with a 1-72 die, and i threaded a hole with a
    2-56 tap, will it make it much easier to screw in? or is that the way
    it's supposed to go and i just didn't know that... i just don't want
    to waste my money on the 2-56 tap and find that the threads won't
    catch each other and be useless... 

David Basile
Gen-X Jewelry
www.gen-xjewelry.com 

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