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Thread: 5/16 tap

  1. 17-03-2021, 09:17 PM #1
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    5/16 tap

    Does anyone have a 5/16x36tpi tap I could borrow by any chance? Wanting to make a couple of modified cases but seems hornady have used a most uncommon thread on the OAL gauge.
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    I just ordered 2 off AliExpress, just have to wait


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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    Follow up, how did u work out it's that thread and not M8x0.75?
    Look online

    Hornady tell you it’s 5/16x36

    Trade tools will have them I’m sure


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    Quote Originally Posted by mimms2 View Post
    Follow up, how did u work out it's that thread and not M8x0.75?
    Hornady and the interwebs say its 5/16x36tpi, jus went out to garage to wave the vernier over it an thread measured 7.8 ish which is roughly 310thou damn near on 5/16 and my pitch gauge matches 36tpi. 0.75 metric pitch is way off.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Magnus View Post
    Hornady and the interwebs say its 5/16x36tpi, jus went out to garage to wave the vernier over it an thread measured 7.8 ish which is roughly 310thou damn near on 5/16 and my pitch gauge matches 36tpi. 0.75 metric pitch is way off.
    Definitely 5/16thx36, have tapped a number of cases with one.


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    @Magnus, I've got one, bring your cases and I will run the tap in. Prefer not to let my tooling go offsite...
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    @ebf Mate would appreciate that! I'll flick ya a pm.
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    It's become a std procedure- soon as I've got a fired case out of a new rifle/barrel, I make a modified case with it. Will give a far more valid reading than any SAAMI-based one.
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    As an aside I no longer use the Hornady modified case method to find the lands contact point.
    Now use the Alex Wheeler "click" method.
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    Just looked at my tap. It's a 5/16 - 36UNS 2B.
    Is that what others are using?
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    Quote Originally Posted by zimmer View Post
    As an aside I no longer use the Hornady modified case method to find the lands contact point.
    Now use the Alex Wheeler "click" method.
    Yep, been using that for a while now. Very good method.
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