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Common Hand Tools
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Subject
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A flat - steel square commonly used in carpentry.
2. Teeth on the gripping part of a wrench. Also refers to the number of teeth per inch on a handsaw.
Hex key wrench
points
rafter angle square
Adjustable end wrench
3. 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.
Chisel bar
Bevel
Open-end wrench
Foot-pounds
4. A smooth jawed adjustable wrench used for turning nuts - bolts - and pipe fittings. Often refered to as a Cresent wrench
Adjustable end wrench
peening
square
weld
5. Exactly adjusted; any piece of material sawed of cut to be rectangle with equal dimensions on all sides; a tool used to check angles.
level
Chisel bar
nail puller
square
6. To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.
nail puller
plumb
strip
striking or slugging wrench
7. Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal.
Inch-pounds
Kerf
Flats
tempered
8. The turning or twisting force applied to an object - such as a nut - bolt - or screw - using a socket wrench or screwdriver to tighten it. Torque is measured in inch-pounds or foot-pounds.
torque
strip
Claw Hammer
Flats
9. A device such as a bolt - clasp - hook - or lock used to attach or secure one material to another.
peening
weld
Fastener
punch
10. A cut or channel made by a saw.
Flat bar
tang
Kerf
Fastener
11. perfectly horizontal; completely flat; also - a tool used to determine if an object is level.
peening
torque
Joint
level
12. A wrench for gripping and turning a pipe or pipe-shaped object; it tightens when turned in one direction.
pipe wrench
tempered
peening
Chisel bar
13. A type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor - try square - and framing square.
rafter angle square
pipe wrench
Carpenter's square
Box-end wrench
14. A steel too used to indent metal.
punch
Flat bar
Combination wrench
Carpenter's square
15. To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.
weld
pliers
strip
Bell-faced hammer
16. A metal tool with a sharpened - beveled edge used to cut and shape wood - stone - or metal.
peening
try square
Chisel
tempered
17. A joint made by fastening together usually perpendicular parts with the ends cut at an angle.
Combination square
miter joint
Joint
ripping bar
18. A scissor-shaped type of adjustable wrench equipped with jaws and teeth to grip objects.
torque
Cat's paw
Hex key wrench
pliers
19. A square whose legs are fixed at a right angle.
Bevel
Inch-pounds
Claw Hammer
try square
20. The straight sides or jaws of a wrench opening. Also - the sides on a nut or bolt head.
Joint
miter joint
Flats
Dowel
21. A metal tool with a sharpened - beveled edge used to cut and shape wood - stone - or metal.
points
nail puller
tang
Chisel
22. A steel too used to indent metal.
planed
Bevel
Box-end wrench
punch
23. A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails.
Chisel bar
strip
Chisel
peening
24. An adjustable carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.
Combination square
pipe wrench
try square
punch
25. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a large object.
Foot-pounds
Inch-pounds
Open-end wrench
planed
26. A claw hammer with a slightly rounded - or convex - face.
Bell-faced hammer
tenon
strip
torque
27. The process of bending - shaping - or cutting material by striking it with a tool.
Box-end wrench
pipe wrench
Open-end wrench
peening
28. 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.
29. To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut.
round off
Inch-pounds
miter joint
Cat's paw
30. a prying tool with a nail slot at the end to pull nails out in tightly enclosed areas. It can also be used as a small pry bar.
Combination square
Flat bar
Cat's paw
punch
31. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a small object.
Chisel
Inch-pounds
round off
torque
32. A wrench - usually double-ended - that has a closed socket that fits over the head of a bolt.
tempered
square
planed
Box-end wrench
33. 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
Ball peen hammer
tenon
Box-end wrench
Fastener
34. A nonadjustable wrench with an opening at each end that determines the size of the wrench.
Box-end wrench
Dowel
pliers
Open-end wrench
35. A tool used to remove nails.
Hex key wrench
Bevel
miter joint
nail puller
36. A non-adjustable wrench with an enclosed - circular opening designed to lock on to the fastener when the wrench is struck.
striking or slugging wrench
weld
Chisel bar
Combination square
37. 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.
Bell-faced hammer
Bevel
Cat's paw
Combination square
38. A wench with an open end and a closed end.
Combination wrench
Ball peen hammer
Carpenter's square
punch
39. The point where members or the edges of members are joined. the types of welding joints are butt joint - corner joint - and T-joint.
Dowel
miter joint
Chisel bar
Joint
40. A non-adjustable wrench with an enclosed - circular opening designed to lock on to the fastener when the wrench is struck.
round off
striking or slugging wrench
Hex key wrench
Kerf
41. A pin - usually round - that fits into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two pieces.
peening
Fastener
Dowel
Flat bar
42. A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails.
Chisel bar
tempered
Flat bar
strip
43. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a large object.
weld
Cat's paw
pliers
Foot-pounds
44. perfectly horizontal; completely flat; also - a tool used to determine if an object is level.
punch
level
ripping bar
Chisel bar
45. a prying tool with a nail slot at the end to pull nails out in tightly enclosed areas. It can also be used as a small pry bar.
Hex key wrench
Box-end wrench
Chisel bar
Flat bar
46. Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal.
tempered
weld
Bevel
plumb
47. Metal handle-end of a file. The tang fits into a wooden or plastic file handle.
Combination wrench
tang
Bell-faced hammer
Cat's paw
48. A tool used for heavy-duty dismantling of wood work - such as tearing apart building frames or concrete forms.
ripping bar
tang
Box-end wrench
Cat's paw
49. A tool used to remove nails.
weld
nail puller
tang
Ball peen hammer
50. A flat - steel square commonly used in carpentry.