• 1/8″ x 27 NPS Bottoming HSS Tap – Goliath
  • HSS Bright Finish NPS Hand and Machine Bottoming Tap.
  • Pipe taps are much shorter than a similar size of regular hand tap, but the design features are the same.
  • Goliath HSS taps provide a high hardness to toughness ratio, compressive and tensile strength, good abrasion resistance and resistance to micro-chipping, ensuring a long tool life.
  • National Pipe Straight (NPS) – Parallel – made to American Standards).
  • Used for free-fitting mechanical joints where thread sealing is not required.
  • Bottoming Taps have a lead of two threads and are used to ensure minimum thread run-out when tapping to the bottom of a blind hole.
  • Bottoming Taps are typically preceded by the use of a Taper or Intermediate Tap.
  • Manufactured from HSS this general purpose tap is designed for use in medium tensile materials and is for hand or general machine use.
  • Recommended tapping drill: 11/32″