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Common Hand Tools

Subject : engineering
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1. A hammer with a flat face that is used to strike cold chisels and punches. The rounded end - the peen- is used to bend and shape sort metal






2. Metal handle-end of a file. The tang fits into a wooden or plastic file handle.






3. A device such as a bolt - clasp - hook - or lock used to attach or secure one material to another.






4. A scissor-shaped type of adjustable wrench equipped with jaws and teeth to grip objects.






5. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a large object.






6. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a large object.






7. A wrench for gripping and turning a pipe or pipe-shaped object; it tightens when turned in one direction.






8. A wench with an open end and a closed end.






9. To cut slant at an angle that is not a right angle (90 degrees). The angle or inclination of a line or surface that meets another at any angle but 90 degrees.






10. A steel too used to indent metal.






11. The point where members or the edges of members are joined. the types of welding joints are butt joint - corner joint - and T-joint.






12. A metal tool with a sharpened - beveled edge used to cut and shape wood - stone - or metal.






13. A square whose legs are fixed at a right angle.






14. A straight steel rod with a curved claw at one end that is used to pull nails that have been driven flush with the surface of the wood or slightly blow it.


15. A non-adjustable wrench with an enclosed - circular opening designed to lock on to the fastener when the wrench is struck.






16. An adjustable carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.






17. A nonadjustable wrench with an opening at each end that determines the size of the wrench.






18. A flat - steel square commonly used in carpentry.


19. A tool used for heavy-duty dismantling of wood work - such as tearing apart building frames or concrete forms.






20. A wrench - usually double-ended - that has a closed socket that fits over the head of a bolt.






21. A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails.






22. A smooth jawed adjustable wrench used for turning nuts - bolts - and pipe fittings. Often refered to as a Cresent wrench






23. A wrench - usually double-ended - that has a closed socket that fits over the head of a bolt.






24. Perfectly vertical; the surface is at a right angle (90 degrees) to the horizon or floor and does not bow out at the top or bottom.






25. A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails.






26. A straight steel rod with a curved claw at one end that is used to pull nails that have been driven flush with the surface of the wood or slightly blow it.


27. To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut.






28. A tool used to remove nails.






29. Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal.






30. To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.






31. A piece that projects out of wood or another material for the purpose of being placed into a hole or groove to form a joint.






32. A joint made by fastening together usually perpendicular parts with the ends cut at an angle.






33. To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.






34. An adjustable carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.






35. The point where members or the edges of members are joined. the types of welding joints are butt joint - corner joint - and T-joint.






36. A square whose legs are fixed at a right angle.






37. perfectly horizontal; completely flat; also - a tool used to determine if an object is level.






38. Describing a surface made smooth by using a tool called a plane.






39. A hammer with a flat striking face. The other end of the head is curved and divided into two claws to remove nails.






40. Exactly adjusted; any piece of material sawed of cut to be rectangle with equal dimensions on all sides; a tool used to check angles.






41. A claw hammer with a slightly rounded - or convex - face.






42. A tool used to remove nails.






43. perfectly horizontal; completely flat; also - a tool used to determine if an object is level.






44. The process of bending - shaping - or cutting material by striking it with a tool.






45. A type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor - try square - and framing square.






46. The straight sides or jaws of a wrench opening. Also - the sides on a nut or bolt head.






47. A piece that projects out of wood or another material for the purpose of being placed into a hole or groove to form a joint.






48. Describing a surface made smooth by using a tool called a plane.






49. To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut.






50. A hammer with a flat face that is used to strike cold chisels and punches. The rounded end - the peen- is used to bend and shape sort metal