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Re: breaking off a tap?!

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Subject: Re: breaking off a tap?!
From: Chris Kantarjiev <cak@dimebank.com>
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 16:53:05 -0800 (PST)
There are specialty tools for removing taps - they have multiple fingers
that reach down the relief slots of the tap, allowing you to turn it.

I seem to recall that nitric acid will dissolve the steel tap and
leave the aluminum intact.

But if you can easily take the part to a machine shop and make it
Someone Else's Problem ... go for it!

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