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Balax catalogue (1.3 Mb)Thredfloer Taps, with their low torque capabilities, soon found acceptance among US manufacturers across the country. Balax has since added other metalworking tools to its product line, including Thredshaver Cutting Taps, Miniature Thread Gages, and Roughing End Mills.
All manufacturing processes are done in house at Balax, including blank making, heat treating, shank and square grinding, fluting, thread grinding and surface treatments. Balax also maintains a fully equipped tapping laboratory to test new design concepts for tapping torque, tapping speed, tool geometry, coolant or lubrication performance, pretap hole sizing, and material compatibility.-
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Balax Thredfloer
Forming Taps are ideal for applications involving aluminum, brass,
copper, lead, stainless steel, carbon steel, cast steel, leaded
steel and zinc. In general, any material, which produces a stringy
chip, is a good Thredfloer candidate.
Balax's thread forming process offers several advantages over thread cutting, including:
- Chipless Tapping
- Stronger Threads
- Better Thread Gaging
- Longer Tap Life
- More Efficient Production
Balax Thredfloer Forming Taps are ground on special, patented thread grinders featuring lead form geometry correction. This process produces forming taps whose lead threads are on pitch, resulting in reduced tapping torque.
Thredfloer Forming Taps are available in ANSI, DIN and JIS sizes with plug, bottom, or one thread lead chamfers. Specialty Thredfloers are available in miniature, extension, STI and straight and tapered pipe versions.
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Thredshaver Cutting Taps are the ideal solution for applications
which are unsuited for thread forming. Balax Thredshavers are
manufactured using CNC grinding equipment and statistical process
quality control procedures to assure consistent, lot-to-lot accuracy.
Standard features include:
- Heavy duty construction.
- Maximum abrasion and wear resistance.
- Consistent thread geometry.
- Precision cutting edge geometry.
Thredshavers are available in a wide range of sizes and styles for tapping low-, medium-, and high-carbon steel, stainless steel, titanium, nickel alloys, aluminum alloys, cast aluminum, magnesium, brass, copper, cast iron, and tool steels.
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Thredlock Forming Taps
Now you can manufacture tapped parts that keep a secure grip on
fasteners without the use of lock washers or thread-lock compounds.
How? By using a patented Balax Thredlock Tap to thread your hole.
This simple, economical process helps minimize materials costs
and streamline the assembly process.
For use in ductile materials, Balax Thredlock Taps are the ideal way to prevent loosening of fasteners that are subjected to vibration or thermal expansion. They are available for both blind and thru hole applications, and the tapped holes are compatible with standard, off-the-shelf fasteners.
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Balax Thredlock Forming Taps create a thread with a built-in spring that grips fasteners tightly. |
As a screw is inserted, it deflects the thread's spring, creating a tight fit. |
Coolant-Thru Forming and
Cutting Taps
Take advantage of the coolant-thru capabilities of your machine
tool. Available in both cold forming and cutting tap styles, Balax
Coolant-Thru taps solve lubrication problems, even in deep blind
holes. Both forming and cutting taps are available in three coolant-path
styles: Thru-Coolant, Radial-Coolant and Angular-Coolant.
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Chipbreaker Cutting Taps
Straight Flute Chipbreaker Thredshavers are
engineered for tapping deep blind and thru holes where chips made
by spiral flute or conventional flute taps are a problem. The
special heavy duty flute configuration converts chips to small
flakes that are easily handled without causing tap binding or
seizure. They are available in regular or coolant-thru configurations.
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Taperlock Thread Gages
Balax Taperlock Thread Gages are ground from hardened High-Speed
Tool Steel blanks on proprietary Balax Thread Grinders. This unique
grinding process provides an accurate thread pitch with less lead
error than other grinding or gage manufacturing methods used today.
Taperlock Thread Gages are available in ANSI sizes from 0-80 to
1-12 and in metric sizes from M1.6 x .35 to M12 x 1.75.
Extra Length Thread Gages
Balax Go Gages 4-40 (M3 x .5) thru 7/16 (M10) are made with
a longer overall length that allows gaging to thread depths achieved
with most standard tap dimensions.
Miniature Thread Gages ( download
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Balax Miniature Thread Gages come in sizes from 000-120 to 00-90
or 0.90 UNM to 1.40 UNM. They are manufactured from special high
speed steel blanks using a special grinding process which assures
a consistency and accuracy never before available with miniature
gages. They are held in color-coded collet type holders.
Taperlock Oversize Pre-Plate Gages
Oversize gages come in sizes ranging from 0-80 to 1/4-28,
or M1.6 x 0.35 to M10 x 1.5. They are designed for Class 2B fit
with a 0.0003" plating thickness allowance. Metric pre-plate
gages are designed to a 6G tolerance.
Certificate of Inspection
A Certificate of Inspection, furnished with every gage, assures
the accuracy of your gage to "Class X" tolerance levels.
Unlike most other thread gages, all Balax Thread Gages are furnished
with actual fifth place (.00000) measurements of pitch diameter
and major diameter.
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Balax Roughing End
Mills are available in a variety of side-cutting and center-cutting
styles for machining aluminum, steel, stainless steel, titanium,
cast iron, and all commonly used alloys. They are designed and
manufactured to provide optimum production efficiency.
- Flutes and cutting teeth are ground from one solid, hardened blank.
- Production-proven cutting edge geometry permits high metal removal and fast feed rates.
- Exact flute location and indexing produce a sharp, even cut.
- Uniform cutting load per tooth assures minimum chatter and deflection.
- Optimum land width permits numerous regrinds.
- Drawn end mill shanks increase tool strength and minimize tool breakage.
- Tools are available in TiN and TiCN coatings.