Tapping Oil Field Parts
Emuge’s Rekord DZBF taps promote the uninterrupted flow of chips out of the cutting zone to protect oil field components during hole-threading operations.
Thread connections are common—and critical—on many oil field parts such as blow-out preventers, valves, pumps, pump jacks, compressors and gears. Tapping operations on openings in these components can be complicated by problematical chip evacuation. To address these difficulties, Mark Hatch, product director—taps and thread mills at Emuge Corp. (West Boylston, Massachusetts) offers these observations and product recommendations.
Emuge CBTz, the company’s latest development in chip-breaking technology. It is designed to promote the uninterrupted flow of chips out of the cutting zone. This eliminates the potential
for tap failure due to chip packing in the flutes or chips birdnesting around the shank, Mr. Hatch says.
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