thread chasers
I have a cast iron irrigation pump that has a 1 1/2" outlet port with dinged/rusted threads. Looking on ebay your dealing with inside threads and outside threads. Their were many devices for chasing and outside thread, but not for an inside thread, except for 1/4, 1/2, etc openings where NPT taps would nicely chase a thread. Many chasers for spark plug holes offered. Would I have to take my well working pump to a pump repair place where they would have a chaser for my 1 1/2 outlet port .—John
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Is your irrigation pump a centrifugal self priming pump? Are you using fire hose hand line connections?
As Larry mentioned you can purchase a National Pipe Thread starting tap to do this. You should have a National Pipe Thread bottoming tap as well.
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If you're looking for cheap pipe taps just for cleaning threads McMaster Carr sells "imported " tap which are good quality and pretty reasonable although you probably don't want to buy them for one job.
Hears what you can do to "make" a thread chaser.
Buy a 1 1/2 X6 nipple and put it in a bench vise vertically. Take a hacksaw or sawzall and cut down through the threads (cut right across so your cutting through the middle of the nipple cutting the threads on 2 sides of the nipple).Cut to the bottom of the threads. Turn the nipple 90 degrees and make the same cut again.
Take a torch and heat the threads and tap the threads with a hammer on the right-hand side of each cut. Just tap them in about 1/8" The left side of the cut is the cutting side leave that as is. Do this for all four cuts.
Now you have a home made pipe thread chaser.
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You can also get a file with the same pitch as the threads that you can try your luck with.
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you can go to harbor freight and buy a SAE NPT pipe tap kit for $60 dollars. don't know how good the metal is but if you're only chasing the threads then they work fine. i have never had a problem chasing threads with them. especially in my area nobody seems to be carrying them much anymore.
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thanks all for the thread chasing comments. In talking to a farmer friend, lo and behold he had a 1 1/2" — 11 1/2 npt tap that I quickly put to use. I was able to clean the threads and penetrate to a depth of about 3/4" which I thought was short. Trying to go further required a lot of pressure on my 10" crescent wrench to I stopped. Inserting my close nipple it would only screw in about 3/8". Any further effort I thought might colapse the nipple using my 18" pipe wrench. I took what I got, put on 3 wraps of teflon tape and installed the nipple. It seems to me the taper of the existing hole is not the same as the tap/nipple, so that the tap and the nipple bind up to soon,—John
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Good idea to use cutting oil also. The tap will b ind without proper lube. An 18" wrench should be plenty if the existing threads were cut deep enough.
There is a difference between cutting or clean ing threads.
Bob "hot rod" Rohr
trainer for Caleffi NA
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"I'd want about 4 turns on that size pipe."
1-1/2" is 11.5 threads per inch. So 3/8" is 4.3 turns.
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