Tap holders for Lathe????

[Bowfisherman]

Anyone have any suggestions for some good tap holders for Lathe. I have VDI style turret!

Thanks

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

Would look at the standard ER collets with the squares to hold the square end of the standard tap.

 

HTH

[ReDEyZZ]

I would go with floating holders for normal lathe work.

 

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Do you use live tooling? If it has sychronous tapping, collets with the square lock are the way to go as stated.

[Justin Beebe at Folsom Tool]

I think the brand they use in our lathe department is BILZ.

[Bowfisherman]

Thanks. VDI tooling is just a little harder to find. I know there are some awesome tap holder out there, just haven't found any in VDI style!

[Ron Branch @ Verisurf]

No what i am saying I would get the ER collet holder for VDI then just use those type of collets. Yuo could also go with the standard 1" boring bar holder for the VDI then get the 1" dia collet holders and now have a VDI block that will hold 1: boring bars and 1" collet holders.

 

Here is a link from US SHOP tools showing their selection of VDI tools. VDI link

 

HTH

[chris m]

I'm with Ron on this one, stick a collet chuck into whatever your standard boring station is; if the turret is on center, and the machine has rigid tapping, there is no reason to run a floating holder. If your turret is a little off center in the Y, then you could run a floating holder to compensate.

 

C