hope this helps. i went thru several allen head screws before i bought a tap. savage does nothing to protect the threads when they coat the model 10s


if you have a model 10 you may have this stuff in the holes...

here it is before. notice the holes are dark, the threads are loaded with the coating they use on the rifle

[img width=600 height=400]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/4387744217_0c15bbed65_b.jpg[/img]

so i run the tap thru and as you can see, there is quite a bit of schmootz in there. very few if any metal flakes came thru

[img width=600 height=400]http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4038/4387747743_ce6c540a7a_b.jpg[/img]

plenty of stuff still on the tap after taking it out.

[img width=600 height=400]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2774/4388507550_ab7b12daf6_b.jpg[/img]

notice the threads are now bright and shiney, all cleaned up

[img width=600 height=400]http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2763/4388531512_3df8312e1a_b.jpg[/img]

i dont worry so much about a certain torque setting going in. the nice thing about all that gunk in the threads is you never needed loctite. now i may use purple on it