Hand tapping titanium

Hope it helps someone.
Tap size m2.5 super cheap HS tap
Drill size .086
Chamfer top and bottom of hole
Moly-d tap fluid
Go slow and easy
This is all much easier to do with a tapmatic and titanium specific spiral flute taps that are altin coated.
Yes I know the tap drill size is off. Technically it should be a .080 drill. But I’ve never once had a thread pull in titanium with this setup. Screws break or pull their threads before the titanium in every test I’ve done.
The reason I use a slightly large drill is because of how much titanium galls and cause the tap to break while cutting.
Keep in mind it’s only hold a pocket clip to a freaking knife, lol.

[@deathcommando1]

If it doesn’t wanna go just make the hole bigger😂

[@JakeHobobackKnives]

happens a lot in my life

[@LatteDZ]

440 -260 Tap??? Metric system for the win. Americans.....

[@JakeHobobackKnives]

yup we are pretty great:)... well some of us.

[@LatteDZ]

@@JakeHobobackKnives you guys thought: fuck logic lets go crazy with our units?

[@JakeHobobackKnives]

@@LatteDZ exactly! Now you get it. We didnt become the world super power by following the crowd, or even logic in allot of cases, lol. so just to be annoying I like to use a mix of metric and imperial screws in my builds

[@LatteDZ]

@@JakeHobobackKnives mixing imperial/metric srews you mad man , you make sure no one can rebuild your builds! Why is this fucking screw not going in this frikking hole. (-:

[@JakeHobobackKnives]

@@LatteDZ competitive advantage bro:)