This 30-minute webinar offers our readers an opportunity to take a deeper dive into the "Thread Without Dread" article published in the January 2023 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering. The article, which features insight from EMUGE-FRANKEN USA and Tapmatic Corp., maps out strategies for meeting the special challenges of putting screw threads in titanium. The article provides practical hands-on tips and best practices for improving your tapping operations—specifically when threading titanium—such as using tapholders designed to provide a minor amount of positional compensation during rigid tapping. This, according to both companies, results in much better thread quality and significantly longer tap life. Also, you will learn why the right tap design is critical for success, and why, in some cases, thread mills are a preferable alternative to taps.

CTE Publisher Dennis Spaeth, who moderated the webinar, was joined by the contributors to the feature article: Mark Hatch with EMUGE-FRANKEN USA and Joe Gillilan with the Tapmatic Corp. As presenters, they each take turns delving a bit deeper into the challenges presented when tapping in titanium, then field a number of questions from the audience.

Speaker contact information:

• Mark Hatch
  Product Director
  EMUGE-FRANKEN USA
  [email protected]
  508-595-3620
  
• Joe Gillilan
  Applications Engineer
  Tapmatic Corp.
  [email protected]
  208-773-8048
  
• Dennis Spaeth
  Publisher
  Cutting Tool Engineering
  [email protected]
  847-714-0176

Handouts available during the webinar are included below:

• January 2023 CTE feature article, Thread Without Dread
• EMUGE-FRANKEN USA Titanium Brochure
• Tapmatic Catalog