Hello Filament and
to the forum.
I've never used a tap and die set on silver but have on steel when I was in metalworking at school!
As far as I remember (was a few years ago now) we used the taps with a wrench down the inside of the tubes and dies on the outside of rods. We had to use oil to help with the cutting and lots of small clockwise then back anticlockwise movements rather than just twisting it. Half a turn at a time I think...
Oh and very important to keep it pefectly straight
Well thats what I remember from school but I'm sure someone will have more info on working with silver. There's some very clever folks on here (and v. friendly too
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