Test your basic knowledge |

Common Hand Tools

Subject : engineering
Instructions:
  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
  • If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
  • Match each statement with the correct term.
  • Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

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. 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.






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






3. A steel too used to indent metal.






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






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






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






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






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






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






10. 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.


11. 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






12. To heat or fuse two or more pieces of metal so that the finished pieces of metal so that the finished piece is as strong as the original; a welded joint.






13. A steel too used to indent metal.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






22. A pin - usually round - that fits into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two pieces.






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






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






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






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






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






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


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






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


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






33. 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.






34. A cut or channel made by a saw.






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






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






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






38. Teeth on the gripping part of a wrench. Also refers to the number of teeth per inch on a handsaw.






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






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






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






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






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






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






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






46. 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.






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






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






49. 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






50. To heat or fuse two or more pieces of metal so that the finished pieces of metal so that the finished piece is as strong as the original; a welded joint.