Features and Benefits: *Material types: high carbon steel for hand tapping applications and high speed steel for machine tapping where critical dimensions are required *Etched: tap size and recommended drill bit size are etched on each tool for easy identification *Point styles: taper, plug, and bottoming styles are available *All Hanson taps and dies are made in USA Steel Machine Screw Tap Specs: *Precision ground straight flutes provide rapid chip removal for efficient threading *Designed for hand threading work *Taps produce a class 2B thread *3 to 5 threads chamfered *Most common chamfer *Ideal for all general-purpose threading *Ideal for tough threading work, routine maintenance, repair and for re-threading where high accuracy and tolerance thread is not critical