Gifix Micro Tapping Machines were built in Germany by Dieter Kühne, Werkzeug-Werkzeugmaschinen Vertretungen GmbH & Co.KG in Lohmühlestr, Reutlingen Baden-Württemberg. Intended for precise, safe and highly accurate of work on small jobs, this NC-controlled machine could be had as the 43 kg, bench-mounted, stand-alone G1 or, for heavier work and mounted on cantilever arms able to be secured to some form of surface table, as the 51 kg G2 and 53 kg G3. Work capacity of the G1 was from M0.5 to M4 mm while the G2 was rated from M2 to M6 and the G3 from M3 to M8.
The aim of NC control was to reduce tap breakage and enable tapping depths accurate to 0.025 mm ( 0.002"). Speed, torque and tapping depths could be set on dials, an adjustable potentiometer monitoring the torque and allowing an experienced operator, familiar with the materials being tapped, to reduce tap breakage and know when taps were becoming blunt.
The units appear to have been built into the late 1990s, and perhaps beyond that, but no longer appear to be available. The full specification can be found below..