Frequently Asked Questions

Office hours are 7:00 a.m. through 6:00 p.m. CST, Monday through Friday.

Yes. North American Tool sells standard taps. Our core business is popular special taps and special taps from bar stock, but we would be happy to quote standard taps per your specifications.

Besides special taps, North American Tool provides the metalworking industry with:

• Special Threading Dies and Adapters
• Thread Plug and Ring Gages
• Cylindrical Plug and Ring Gages
• Solid Carbide Taps
• Solid Carbide Insert Thread Chasers
• Carb-I-Sert® Carbide Insert Taps
• Solid Carbide Thread Mills, with programming support
• Coolant Fed Taps
• Conduit Thread ‘PG’ Series Taps
• Smart Cut® Tapping Fluid
• “Smart Clean” Industrial Cleaner/Degreaser
• “Smart Clean/A” Aqueous Parts Washer fluid
• “Smart Pro” Rust Preventative
• Blueprint Special Taps (made to customer specs.)
• Metric Taps
• DIN-dimensioned Standard Taps
• Cost Cutter® Combination Drill and Tap
• Stock TiN-Coated (Titanium Nitride) Taps
• Tru-Flo® Thread Forming Taps
• Pipe Taps
• Interrupted Thread Taps
• Acme/Trapezoidal/Buttress Taps
• Tandem Style Acme Taps
• Oversize Taps
• Screw Thread Insert (STI) Taps
• Extension and Pulley Taps
• Tap Extensions-for ANSI Standard Taps, for Coolant-Through ANSI Standard Taps, and for DIN (Metric) Standard Taps
• Vast selection of styles and types of taps

Yes. Drills are available through our subsidiary company, Bitner Tooling Technologies, Inc.. They offer various types of drills including subland drills, step drills, coolant-fed drills, and other specially designed drilling tools. North American Tool offers Cost Cutter® combination drill and tap tools in popular decimal-inch and metric sizes. Literature on these products can be viewed, downloaded or sent to you. For more information view our product literature page

Yes, please vist the "Our Staff" Section of our Web site.

From I-90/I-39, take Hwy. 75 West (South Beloit Exit). Follow 75-West through South Beloit (Gardner St.) to Hwy. 2/Hwy. 75 (Blackhawk Blvd.) and turn left. Travel 2 blocks on  Blackhawk Blvd. and turn right on Elmwood Ave. to North American Tool Corporation.

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Yes, a variety of coatings are available. Contact our Customer Service Dept. for price and delivery details. Click here to view our Surface Treatment Technical Data sheet.

Yes, literature can be viewed online, downloaded as PDF files or sent to you upon request. For more information vist our product literature page

Yes, we will accept orders from end users when they agree to send confirming orders to a recognized NATool distributor of their choice.

North American Tool’s minimum net charge per order is $25.00.

Yes. North American Tool currently does business in 54 countries.

We guarantee all of our products to be of the utmost quality, manufactured in an ISO 9001:2000 registered facility with standard industry tolerances and dimensions, and consistent with customer-specified design specifications. Should the need arise to return any cutting tools, please contact our customer service department (800.872.8277 or 815.389.2300) for authorization. A restocking charge may apply.

North American Tool has Thread Tool Engineers/Tool Designers on staff to offer immediate assistance on any tapping application you may have. Feel free to contact our customer service department (800.872.8277 or 815.389.2300) when the need arises.

Yes, North American Tool accepts American Express, MasterCard and VISA.

We will ship your order per YOUR shipping instructions. We use major carriers who are the most trusted in the business.