Die:

A tool used to shape, form, or finish other tools or pieces of metal.

For example, a threading die is used to cut threads on pipe.

Terms Related to Die

• Die collar

  N: a collar or coupling of tool steel, threaded internally, that can be used to retrieve pipe from the well on fishing jobs; the female ...

• Tool joint

  A heavy coupling element for drill pipe. It is made of special ahoy steel and has coarse, tapered threads and seating shoulders designed to sustain ...

• Thread protector.

  A metal or plastic device that is screwed onto or into pipe threads to protect 5them from damage when the pipe is not in use.

• Slips

  Wedge-shaped toothed pieces of metal that fit inside a bowl and are used to support tubing or other pipe.

• Pickle

  A cylindrical or spherical device that is affixed to the end of a wireline just above the hook to keep the line straight and to ...

• V-door

  An opening at floor level in a side of a derrick or mast. The v-door is opposite the drawworks and is used as an entry ...

• External cutter

  A fishing tool containing metal-cutting knives that is lowered into the hole and over the outside of a length of pipe to cut it. The ...