High-Performance Cut Taps featured

Guhring, OSG USA and YMW Taps USA provided video demonstrations of their high-performance cut taps as a supplement to the "Tip Top Tap" feature article in the March 2026 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Included in this video report are Guhring's Pionex taps, OSG's A-Tap series, and YMW's Z-PRO VU series (VUSP and VUPO).

Product Demos Taps & Threading Tools Threading & Tapping Feature Article

February 17, 2026By Dennis Spaeth

Guhring, OSG USA and YMW Taps USA provided video demonstrations of their high-performance cut taps as a supplement to the "Tip Top Tap" feature article in the March 2026 issue of Cutting Tool Engineering magazine. Included in this video report are Guhring's Pionex taps, OSG's A-Tap series, and YMW's Z-PRO VU series (VUSP and VUPO).

Glossary terms in this article

tapping
Machining operation in which a tap, with teeth on its periphery, cuts internal threads in a predrilled hole having a smaller diameter than the tap diameter. Threads are formed by a…