Other than candles (only the top quality ones are beeswax--you might ask the clergy at your church about the stubs), I bought a cake of beeswax sold as a Singer product years ago and it lasts forever. Check out the sewing goods places. And the reason for backing the tap up every few turns is to allow the chips to fall out of the flutes (all good taps are fluted).
Jace Kahn General Manager Ceres & Canisteo RR Co./Champlain County Traction Co. > To: [email protected] > From: [email protected] > Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2010 00:38:57 +0000 > Subject: {S-Scale List} Re: Tapping brass and Steeplecab Progress > > > > --- In [email protected], "bbbogart56" <bbbogar...@...> wrote: > > > > > > I use beeswax. It works well with most all metals, <skip> > > > I'll second this! I've always used beeswax or, if none is available, > paraffin; both for drilling and tapping holes in brass. I also work the tap > in and out gently so as not to over pressure it - the same as Thorin > describes. > > Jim Kindraka > > > > ------------------------------------ > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/S-Scale/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
