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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| A smooth jawed adjustable wrench used for turning nuts,bolts, and pipe fittings. Often referred as Cresent Wrench | Adjustable End Wrench |
| 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 |
| A claw hammer with a slightly rounded - or convex -face | Bell Faced Hammer |
| 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 |
| A Wrench- usually double-ended- that has a closed socket that fits over the head of a bolt | Box End Wrench |
| A Flat- steel square commonly used in carpentry | Carpenter's Square |
| 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 | Cat's Paw |
| A metal tool with a sharpened-beveled edge used to cut and shape wood- stone- or metal | Chisel |
| A tool with a claw at each end - commonly used to pull nails | Chisel Bar |
| A hammer with a flat striking face. The other end of the head is curved and divided into two claws to remove nails | Claw Hammer |
| An adjustable Carpenter's tool consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head | Combination Square |
| A wrench with an open end and a closed end | Combination Wrench |
| A pin- usually round - that fits into a corresponding hole to fasten or align two pieces | Dowel |
| A device such as a bolt -clasp- hook- or lock used to attach or secure one material to another | Fastener |
| 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 | Flat Bar |
| The straight sides or jaws of a wrench opening. Also- the sides on a nut or bolt head | Flats |
| Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted (torque) to tighten a large object | Foot-Pounds |
| A hexagonal steel bar that is bent to form a right angle. Often referred as an Allen Wrench | Hex Key Wrench |
| Unit of measure used to describe the amount of pressure exerted(torque) to tighten a small object | Inch-Pounds |
| The point where members or the edges of members are joined. The types of welding joints are butt joint- corner joint-and T-joint | Joint |
| A cut or channel made by a saw | Kerf |
| Perfectly Horizontal;Completely Flat; Also-a tool used to determine if an object is level | Level |
| A joint made by fastening together usually perpendicular parts with the ends cut at an angle. | Miter Joint |
| A tool used to remove nails | Nail Puller |
| The process of bending-shaping- or cutting material by striking it with a tool | Peening Peening |
| A wrench for gripping or turning a pipe or pipe -shaped object; it tightens when turned in one direction | Pipe wrench |
| Describing a surface made smooth by using a tooled called a plane | Planed |
| A scissor-shaped type of adjustable wrench equipped with jaws and teeth to grip objects | Pliers |
| Perfectly vertical; the surface is at a right angle (90 degree) to the horizon or floor and does not bow out at the top or bottom | Plumb |
| Teeth on the gripping part of a wrench. Also refers to the number of teeth per inch on a handsaw | Points |
| A steel tool used to indent metal | Punch |
| A type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor-try square- and framing square | Rafter Angle Square |
| A tool used for heavy-duty dismantling of wood work- such as tearing apart building frames or concrete forms | Ripping Bar |
| To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut | Round Off |
| Exactly adjusted; any piece of material sawed of cut to be rectangle with equal dimensions on all sides; a tool used to check angles | Square |
| 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 |
| To damage the threads on a nut or bolt | Strip |
| Metal handle-end of a file. The tang fits into a wooden or plastic file handle | Tang |
| Treated with heat to create or restore hardness in steal | Tempered |