Donovan, thanks for the link, boy if they don't have it, no one does, (like those kinds of places know of them but have never ordered from there)
It turns out to be a metric, M6 was a little wobbly threading in, but the original was too, so I backed that one out, put the M6 in, then carefully felt my way through tightening it up, after doing the same for the original. I haphazardly mixed up from another package, a 1/4-28, LOL gee, not an M6, now what, then reached for another, did the above. The darn things are so small, even with a thread pitch gauge you need a magnifying glass to see if it fits.
I went and picked up a 17/64" bit, I have a jug of old rigid cutting oil, boy does that stuff reek ! I have 2 old tap & die sets, one a No. 7 from memory, a Greenfield in a wood box, which was my grandfathers, whom was a chief engineer on ships, it was never used, until I got it, in the box, cosmolene (sp?) paper, brown sticky lube on the taps, he passed 2 years before I was born, won't take any chances with breaking those taps, incidentally, I like old school machinist and similar tools like these, reminds a person of the quality we were producing in those days !
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