KBC Tools & Machinery introduces new Dormer Shark Taps!

It’s a virtual rainbow of color with the pot of gold of savings and increased tapping speed, accuracy parts per tool, overall productivity, and earnings at the end of the rainbow with and Dormer Shark DIN ANSI Color Coded Ring Taps. Shark Taps by Dormer are color coded to ensure true efficiencies in tapping and the right tap for the right material. Shark taps are manufactured from a unique powder metallurgy tool steel different from any other HSS-E-PM with a TiAIN-Top coating. This provides high impact toughness, increased hot and consistent hardness, and edge strength, allowing the taps to perform at higher cutting temperatures while offering excellent performance and longer tool life. The thread geometry and chamfer result in low torque, excellent threads and surface finishes as well as reduction in axial forces. Black – Spiral Point taps for high strength steels and heat resistant work materials with hardness up to 45HRC – that’s tough! Recommended to use with rigid tapping for through hole threading up to 2.5xD Blue – Spiral Point and Spiral Flute taps for stainless steel have TiAIN + WC/C coating (Super B) with an additional edge treatment. Now you can tap through hole and blind holes in stainless with ease and repeatability. Red – Spiral Point taps for high performance blind hole tapping in most medium alloy steels. The taps have a back taper that further facilitates chip evacuation which results in reduced chipping of the last threads of the taps and lower torque when the tap reverses. Recommended to use a tool holder with minimal float or soft start. Yellow – Spiral Flute and Spiral Point taps for through hole tapping in structural, plain carbon, and low alloy steels. White – Straight Flute taps for semi-bottoming or through hole tapping in cast iron. Shark Taps are readily available from www.kbctools.com in The U.S. and Canada along with a host of other tapping accessories, cutting oils, and MRO supplies. Technical support to improve your production threading capabilities with Shark Taps is available from KBC Tools & Machinery and Dormer. KBC Tools & Machinery has been providing the metalworking industry with the best tools at the best prices since 1965: cutting tools, indexable tooling, fluids, work holding, abrasives, measuring & inspection equipment, toolroom accessories, hand tools, shop supplies, power & air tools, and machinery. KBC is a WBE certified company in Canada and WBENC in The USA. KBC is one of the leading metal cutting tool and machinery catalogue houses in North America with 3 locations in Canada: Mississauga, ON; Oldcastle, ON; and Delta, BC; and 4 in The U.S.A.: Sterling Heights, MI; Sterling Heights, MI Machinery Showroom; Elk Grove Village, IL; and Fullerton, CA; www.kbctools.com - All Metal…All The Time!