Originally Posted by FastFieros  Well, I used a rigid tap holder and it tapped fine for me. My machine stops with the .2 on anything. It has the rigid tap option for sure, but I was told the .2 was the speed selection, and my machine does not have automatic speed selection.. it is remove the Z cover and move the belts with your hands on mine. |
I see, the older model must have a different control
I use a Tapmatic self reversing head most of the time myself (G85), but the rigid tapping is awesome for getting max thread out of a blind hole. When I started using the option I asked advise from another shop in town with Fadal's and that was the recommendation they gave. He prefered regular tapping with a compression head (G84) because you can retract faster than the feed in. His was a 96, mine was a 97. Maybe you can do this with Rigid tapping too, I don't know.
If I have one complaint with Fadal's it's too many variations of programming depending on F1/F2, and apparantly the year model of the machine matters too. This is from my manual and it's the same for my 97 and 08 machine:
G84 Feed - Reverses Feed RH Tap Compression Holder
G84.1 Feed - Reverses Feed Right Hand Rigid Tapping