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So I've been thinking about tools that I have and different ways to utilize them and came up with the idea of adapting the 10-24 tap to use with 1/4 inch drive tools. It involves making an adapter for the 3/16 square end of the tap so I decided to try fabricating something that would work with what I had on hand. I used a strip of aluminum soda can folded around a 1/4 in coupling nut to create a form which I wrapped in thin plastic and taped together to slip into a 3/8 deep well socket. 3 steel nuts size 10-24 were used to center the tap into the form, two were squared up with a needle file to accept the shape of the tap and one was resized to fit over the round part of the tap. I removed the coupling nut from the form, leaving it inserted into the socket and placing the two squared up nuts on the end of the tap, I inserted it into the form. I then filled the form with regular JB WELD to create a bed about an inch long, then placed the remaining nut on the tap shaft to center it in the bed of epoxy. (NOTE: a thin plastic like kitchen wrap keeps the epoxy from sticking when the object is removed from the socket.) After it hardened I now have a removable tap that will fit into a hex socket. A dedicated socket could be used if preferred. After cleaning it all up I found that it fit nicely into a 1/4 drive 10mm socket. This also gives the opportunity to use 1/4 in hex drive tools with 1/4 inch square drive tool with a square to hex adapter. Add a 1/4 in drive universal and it expands the capability and opportunity for other uses. Maybe someone will find this useful. Stan
