Straight Flute – Bottoming Tap

Titanium Nitride Straight Flute Hand Bottoming Tap
— The most common style of tap.
— General use in production tapping or hand operations.
— Precision ground threads for the ultimate in accuracy & performance.
— Versatile taps for use in general machine tapping or CNC tapping applications.
— Proudly manufactured in the USA
with globally sourced material

Pitch Diameter is the basic dimension of a screw, threaded hole, or a tap the diameter of an imaginary cylinder, the surface of which passes through the thread where width of thread and space between threads are identical. This cylinder, of course, would be a cone for tapered taps. It is upon Pitch Diameter that tolerance limits are based to establish Class of Thread.