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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 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
Foot-pounds
Flat bar
Combination square
2. A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails.
points
pipe wrench
Chisel bar
Adjustable end wrench
3. A metal tool with a sharpened - beveled edge used to cut and shape wood - stone - or metal.
Claw Hammer
Chisel
Flat bar
tang
4. 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
Inch-pounds
Ball peen hammer
Box-end wrench
pliers
5. A type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor - try square - and framing square.
rafter angle square
square
Fastener
planed
6. A type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor - try square - and framing square.
Foot-pounds
weld
level
rafter angle square
7. 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.
striking or slugging wrench
try square
Combination square
plumb
8. The process of bending - shaping - or cutting material by striking it with a tool.
square
points
Bevel
peening
9. A tool used to remove nails.
Bell-faced hammer
Foot-pounds
nail puller
Joint
10. Describing a surface made smooth by using a tool called a plane.
planed
torque
tempered
tenon
11. 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.
Joint
weld
Hex key wrench
Dowel
12. The process of bending - shaping - or cutting material by striking it with a tool.
Cat's paw
peening
pliers
level
13. A pin - usually round - that fits into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two pieces.
Ball peen hammer
Dowel
tempered
miter joint
14. A claw hammer with a slightly rounded - or convex - face.
points
Bevel
weld
Bell-faced hammer
15. Exactly adjusted; any piece of material sawed of cut to be rectangle with equal dimensions on all sides; a tool used to check angles.
Dowel
plumb
square
tempered
16. To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.
round off
level
square
strip
17. A tool used for heavy-duty dismantling of wood work - such as tearing apart building frames or concrete forms.
Combination wrench
strip
ripping bar
Foot-pounds
18. 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.
punch
striking or slugging wrench
try square
Flat bar
19. A scissor-shaped type of adjustable wrench equipped with jaws and teeth to grip objects.
Combination wrench
Claw Hammer
pliers
Bevel
20. A tool used to remove nails.
square
round off
striking or slugging wrench
nail puller
21. To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut.
round off
tempered
plumb
points
22. 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.
Chisel bar
tenon
Adjustable end wrench
pliers
23. A hammer with a flat striking face. The other end of the head is curved and divided into two claws to remove nails.
Open-end wrench
peening
Kerf
Claw Hammer
24. Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal.
Ball peen hammer
planed
try square
tempered
25. A metal tool with a sharpened - beveled edge used to cut and shape wood - stone - or metal.
Chisel
tenon
Bell-faced hammer
round off
26. The point where members or the edges of members are joined. the types of welding joints are butt joint - corner joint - and T-joint.
strip
punch
Bell-faced hammer
Joint
27. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a small object.
Inch-pounds
Claw Hammer
level
strip
28. A wench with an open end and a closed end.
pliers
Combination wrench
tempered
square
29. The point where members or the edges of members are joined. the types of welding joints are butt joint - corner joint - and T-joint.
Claw Hammer
Claw Hammer
Cat's paw
Joint
30. Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a small object.
plumb
Combination square
tenon
Inch-pounds
31. 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
Kerf
Box-end wrench
ripping bar
32. 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.
punch
weld
tempered
ripping bar
33. A wrench for gripping and turning a pipe or pipe-shaped object; it tightens when turned in one direction.
pipe wrench
miter joint
ripping bar
punch
34. A steel too used to indent metal.
rafter angle square
punch
Hex key wrench
level
35. 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.
Bevel
weld
Inch-pounds
Dowel
36. The straight sides or jaws of a wrench opening. Also - the sides on a nut or bolt head.
Ball peen hammer
Cat's paw
Flats
nail puller
37. 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.
38. A device such as a bolt - clasp - hook - or lock used to attach or secure one material to another.
Fastener
Combination square
planed
Claw Hammer
39. Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal.
miter joint
Ball peen hammer
tempered
weld
40. 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.
Kerf
plumb
square
pliers
41. An adjustable carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.
Combination square
plumb
round off
torque
42. The straight sides or jaws of a wrench opening. Also - the sides on a nut or bolt head.
Dowel
Flats
Bevel
tempered
43. A flat - steel square commonly used in carpentry.
44. A claw hammer with a slightly rounded - or convex - face.
miter joint
Bell-faced hammer
Inch-pounds
torque
45. A hexagonal steel bar that is bent to form a right angle. Often referred to as an Allen wrench
Combination wrench
pliers
Flats
Hex key wrench
46. A joint made by fastening together usually perpendicular parts with the ends cut at an angle.
miter joint
points
Chisel
pliers
47. A nonadjustable wrench with an opening at each end that determines the size of the wrench.
Open-end wrench
Carpenter's square
nail puller
Cat's paw
48. A cut or channel made by a saw.
pipe wrench
Box-end wrench
Claw Hammer
Kerf
49. 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.
50. An adjustable carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.
pliers
pliers
Flats
Combination square