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Hand tools
Hand tools use.
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Claw hammer | You use the head to drive nails, wedges, and dowels. |
| Ball peen hammer | You use this hammer with chisels and punches. |
| Long-nose pliers | Useful for bending angles in wire or narrow metal strips. |
| Lineman pliers | Use them to cut heavy heavy or large-gauge wire and to hold work. |
| Ripping bar | Used for heavy-duty dismantling of woodwork such as tearing apart building frames or concrete form. |
| Screwdrivers | Slotted, Phillips, Clutch-Drive, Torx, Robertson, and Allen. |
| Austable Wrenches | Used to tighten or remove nuts and bolts and all types and sizes of pipes. |
| Nonadjustable Wrenches | Open-end wrench, Box-end wrench, Hex key wrench, Striking or Slugging wrench, and Combination wrench. |
| Carpenter's Square | Mainly used for squaring up sections of work such |
| Chisels | used to cut and shape wood ,or metal, |
| Squares | used for marking ,checking ,and measuring |
| Punches | uses the impact of a hammer to indent metal before you drill a hole, to drive pins, and to align holes in two parts that are mates. |
| Slip-joint | use pliers to hold and bend wire and to grip and hold objects during assembly operations. |
| Wrenches | used to hold and turn screws, nuts, bolts, and pipes |
| Plumb bob | uses the force of gravity to make the line hang vertical , or plumb |