If your chasing threads with a tap you need to buy a bottoming tap not a starting tap, starting taps have a tapered start, a bottoming tap only has maybe one thread that is tapered, this will clean the threads in blind holes, probably $10 at my local hardware store. Open the link:
https://www.google.com/imgres?imgurl...lxCbUQ9QEIIDAA
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