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Allen Benjamin Carbide HSS Threading
Carbide & HSSE Threading Tools
Allen Benjamin offers both a complete line of carbide taps, and an easy-to-use line Application Specific HSSE taps, designed to make tool selection easy.

In 2009 North American Tool announced the addition of Allen Benjamin, Inc. as a new member of the Global Specialty Solutions Inc. family of companies. North American Tool Corporation (NATC) was acquired by GWS Tool Group in 2020. NATC is a world-class supplier of special taps, dies, and gages. From solid carbide thread mills to high-speed steel taps and thread gages, North American Tool delivers high-quality specialized threading tools.

Allen Benjamin

PO Box 116
South Beloit, IL 61080-0116
TF: 800.528.7404
Tel: 480.968.7937
Fax: 480.731.9462

Allen Benjamin Carbide HSS Threading
Carbide & HSSE Threading Tools

Carbide Taps

Allen Benjamin carbide taps
Designed to offer superior strength, carbide taps are essential to maintaining high rates of production. Because of their durability, they contribute to lower production costs, higher productivity and longer tool life.

Affording manufacturers a more dependable, more cost-efficient solution to their tapping needs, carbide insert taps, which are typically used in place of solid carbide in diameters exceeding ½” or M12, have been a mainstay in the metalworking industry for many years.

Styles of Carbide Taps Available
  • Carbide Straight Flute Taps
  • Carbide Spiral Point Taps
  • Carbide S.T.I. (Screw Thread Insert) Taps
  • Carbide Metric Taps
  • "PRX" and "PRC" Carbide Taps for tough, challenging applications
  • Carbide Multi-Flute Taps for tapping plastic, resins, fiberglass and like materials
  • Carbide Pipe Taps
  • Carbide Thread Forming Taps
  • Carbide Insert taps with HSS Tap bodies
  • Special, Made-to-Order Carbide Taps

High Performance, Application-Specific H.S.S.E. Taps

Allen Benjamin High Performance HSS Taps
Rugged and dependable, HSSE taps are designed for machinists who often work with troublesome, challenging materials. Manufactured to handle even the toughest tapping applications, our premium high speed steel taps provide greater wear resistance and increased tool life.

As a result, metalworkers have come to depend on HSSE taps from Allen Benjamin to deliver lasting, reliable results.

HSSE taps from Allen BenjaminAllen Benjamin makes selecting the correct tap for your application easy.

By color coding every tap, we afford our customers the convenience of simply grabbing a tap based on its color.

With six color rings available – black, white, yellow, green, blue and red – we have coded every tap to a specific application and designed our HSSE taps to address those applications directly, from their hardness range to their characteristics.


Smart Cut Tapping Fluid

Allen Benjamin smartcut tapping fluid
An environmentally safe, extreme duty drilling, tapping, cutting fluid. ‘Smart Cut’ is thick, like honey, and will stick to the tool throughout the cutting operation. Ideal for machining stainless steel, carbon steel, inconel, monel, hastalloy, titanium, aluminum and other alloys and exotic metals. Originally designed as a tapping and drilling fluid, but works well for sawing and other machining/metal cutting operations. ‘Smart Cut’ is safe for medical/dental machining applications as it does not contain animal-derived components.

  • Environmentally SMART...ozone friendly.
  • Contains no carbon tetrachloride or 1,1,1-Trichloroethane.
  • Maximum accuracy in machined parts.
  • Designed to extend tool life.
  • Increases productivity.
  • Penetrates to the tool's cutting edge and stays on the tool.
  • Eliminates hassles of costly hazardous waste disposal.
  • Excellent friction-reducing properties.
  • Does not contain any animal-derived components or components synthesized from animal-derived materials.

Tap Extensions

Allen Benjamin tap extensions
Coolant-through ANSI standard taps offer the same features as regular ANSI standard taps with the added benefit of offering the ability to direct coolant to the cutting edge.

Metric DIN standard taps offer the same features as the above with all popular DIN metric sizes. Metric tap extensions are 127mm (5") and 228.6mm (9") in length.


ANSI standard tap features include:
  • Hand tap extensions 5" & 9" length; 6" available for taps larger than ½"
  • Made from tool steel.
  • Internal square drive for positive tap drive.
  • Compression cap for easy tightening. No wrench required.
  • A very effective tool at low cost.
  • The slim profile lets you fit into places not accessible to conventional tap extensions.
  • Eliminates the need for purchasing expensive extended length taps.
  • Integral compression collet eliminates the need for bulky collet nuts.
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