Get your minds out the gutter, lads and ladies - I'm talkin' taps and threads here!

I saw these and saw the price and thought "Holy Smoked Salted Mackerel! M' Banger-Gees have lost their minds and put gold-plated taps on sale for plain steel prices!" - thinking I'd buy a bunch, scrape off the gold and have a Champagne & Caviar brunch with my dedicated Hottie of 31 years.

Alas, that's not gold, fellas and felicias - it's titanium nitride and it greatly improves the wear properties of the taps - makes'em last longer, like me. They're still a great price.

I don't know about yours, but mine came nicely packaged and clearly marked, M3 thru M6 (M8 size taps are for sissies, trust me...) The tooling looks quality, the tap threads are clean and clear, thread leading and trailing edges have no burring or funny smells - these weren't made by any relatives of mine in some troll cave - these are very nice.

I ran an M3 and M4 tap on some 5mm ABS, 6005A and 6061 Alu sheet parts that have been waiting on these taps. The taps cut cleanly (always use cutter oil on Alu) and quickly and all the way thru the sheet. Threads were nice, tight.

Buy these - chicks dig'em! Oh, and if you break a tap - don't blame the tap =)

Not yet tested, but seems nice quality, good price.