have been looking on the net for an online supplier of taps and dies. im specifically looking for a 3 piece tap set m18 1.5. cheepest i have found so far is £50 which i think is a bit ott for the limited use its going to get.

does anyone know some good suppliers?

Try the tap & die co london.

Usually say tracytools.co.uk £12 for a tap or a die. Do you actually need all 3 taps?

Also M18*1.5 is 'spark plug' thread so if you might find the sort of place that recons cylinder heads will have the appropriate taps and will run the threads for beer money if you take the bits pre drilled and ready to do(I'm assuming you havent got many to do!)
Regards
Hugh

If you are just tapping a hole for a joint you do not need all three.

Try also:

http://www.drill-service.co.uk/Product.asp?Parent=180040000000&Tool=417

Taps and dies are one thing I spend £ on getting good ones from the start. I've used some cheap sets and they were useless on anything harder than plasticine.

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Originally posted by BenB
Taps and dies are one thing I spend £ on getting good ones from the start. I've used some cheap sets and they were useless on anything harder than plasticine.

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Yeah what they said ^^^

I once bought a set for about a tenner from Car Builder Solutions. There was a typo on the card sleeve which instead of "Tap and Die Set" said "Pap and Die Set" and sure enough they are Pap.

I bought a dormer set of metric taps complete with the correct drill bits from eBay for not much money and while they probably aren't the very best they are an awful lot better than the ones in that set!

The only one I have still had to use is the 1/8 NPT one but I just take my time and use plenty of lube And thankfully it was only into ally.

Do you need a 3 peice set ?

Ebay item 120543079858

There are quite a few second hand tooling suppliers out there...You'll pick up a nice Dormer set maybe.

http://www.rdbarrett.co.uk/used_tooling

Try These for new
http://www.engineerstoolroom.co.uk/dies.htm