Reply To: Handy Taps And Dies To Have On Hand

[Bob Wight]

Mumbles – you are so right regarding having all of these taps and dies. I recently had to go pick up a 4-40 to clean up one of the carb butterfly screw holes when I rebuilt my RD-18 carb. I needed the 12-28 tap on another rebuild and although I didn’t have one, I was able to borrow one from a neighbor who was a machinist. Always good practice to clean up threads during the rebuild process.

Bob

1937 Champion D2C Deluxe Lite Twin
1954 Johnson CD-11
1955 Johnson QD-16
1957 Evinrude Fastwin 18
1957 Evinrude 3022
1958 Johnson QD-19
1958 Johnson FD-12
1959 Johnson QD-20
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