Expanding Beyond Legacy Tapping Products

摘要

NOW ON ITS THIRD GENERATION of family ownership, Tapmatic Corp. of Post Falls, Idaho, continues to thrive, and surprise. Since 1952, the company has been known for its line of tapping attachments and tap holders, notably the self-reversing tapping heads found on machining centers and drill presses. That line has grown larger of late as the ISO 9001:2015 company improves existing products and introduces new ones, some well beyond the tapping arena. The most recent of these is the DeBurr-Z, a deburring toolholder for use in CNC machining centers. Tapmatic President Mark Johnson explained that the DeBurr-Z floats in the Z-axis, working in compression when deburring the top edges of a workpiece and in extension for deburring the underside. There's also an adjustable force setting, allowing operators to compensate for different materials and cut depths, and the DeBurr-Z accepts various burrs and chamfer tools.