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Tools Topics - Abney Level
- Hand-held instrument in which angles of steep sights are measured while simultaneously viewing a spirit-level bubble.
- Abrasive Wheel
- A grinding wheel composed of an abrasive grit and bonding agent.
- Adjustable Spanner
- A tool which has a fixed jaw and a movable jaw which is controlled by a spiral gear.
- Air Hammer
- A hammer that is powered by compressed air.
- Allen Key
- A hexagonal shaped tool in cross section that is used to turn allen screws.
- Angle Grinder
- A handheld powered tool with a geared head at a right-angle on which is mounted an abrasive disc.
- Angle Plate
- A precision holding fixture made of cast iron, steel, or granite.
- Angled Screwdriver
- An angled screwdriver is useful when there is not enough space to get access to with a normal straight screwdriver.
- Anvil
- A heavy iron or steel block upon which metal is forged or hammered.
- Arbor
- A shaft or spindle for holding cutting tools; most usually on a milling machine.
- Ball Peen Hammer
- A hammer with two ends on the head, one that is round and the other flat.
- Ball Pien Hammer
- A hammer with two ends on the head, one that is round and the other flat.
- Band Clamp
- For clamping round, oval and odd-shaped pieces. Consists of nylon band and ratchet mechanism.
- Bandsaw
- A power saw, the blade of which is a continuous, narrow, steel band having teeth on one edge and passing over two large pulley wheels.
- Bar Clamp
- A tool with a stationary head and a sliding foot for clamping purposes.
- Bench Grinder
- A small grinding machine for shaping and sharpening the cutting edges of tools.
- Bench Lathe
- A small lathe mounted on a bench or table.
- Bench Vice
- A device attached to a bench with two jaws that can be moved parallel to each other and used to hold a workpiece.
- Bent Nose Pliers
- Pliers with bent jaws.
- Blacksmith Hammer
- A special hammer for hitting and shaping heated iron.
- Body Hammer
- A hammer with a large flat pounding surface for removing dents.
- Bolt Cutters
- Cutters with strong jaws and long handles designed for manually cutting through thick steel bolts.
- Bossing Mallet
- A hammer with a pear-shaped wooden head used for shaping and stretching metal over a sandbag or wooden block.
- Bow Saw
- Ideal for pruning, landscaping work and sawing firewood.
- Box Spanner
- A hollow tube with a socket at each end and two holes through which a bar can be inserted to turn the tube.
- Box Wrench
- American name for a ring spanner.
- Bradawl
- A sharp tool for making small holes either through thin materials or into soft block materials.
- Brass Hammer
- A hammer with a brass head.
- Brick Bolster
- A wide bladed chisel designed for cutting bricks.
- Bricklayer Hammer
- A special hammer for chipping cement blocks and bricks.
- Broach
- A long, tapered cutting tool with serration′s which, when forced through a hole or across a surface, cuts a desired shape or size.
- Bumping Hammer
- An hammer used with a dolly for restoring a panel′s shape.
- Caliper
- A measuring instrument used to measure the distance between two points or the inside or outside dimensions of an object.
- Carpenters Brace
- A hand tool used to drill holes, usually in wood.
- Centre Drill
- A combined countersink and drill used to prepare work for mounting centres.
- Chainring Nut Spanner
- A special bicycle tool used to loosen the slotted nuts that fasten a chainring to a crankarm.
- Chipping Hammer
- A hammer used to remove the slag from weld seams.
- Chuck
- A device on a machine tool to hold the workpiece or a cutting tool.
- Circlip Pliers
- Pliers with a round bar at the end of each jaw that fit in the holes of a circlip so that it may be sprung open to fit or remove from the workpiece.
- Circular Saw
- A rotating disc, driven by an electric motor, with teeth around the circumference.
- Clamp
- A fastening device which secures something within its jaws without constant human pressure.
- Claw Hammer
- A hammer with a forked end on the head which is used for removing nails.
- Club Hammer
- A hammer with a short handle but a large, heavy head.
- Cold Chisel
- Tool made of tempered steel used for cutting ′cold′ metals.
- Collet
- A precision work holding chuck which centres finished round stock automatically when tightened.
- Combination Spanner
- A flat wrench with a hex ring at one end and an open end at the other.
- Combination Square
- A drafting and layout tool combining a square, level, protractor, and centre head.
- Compass Saw
- A handsaw with a thin blade designed for cutting holes in boards with a drilled hole as a starting point.
- Compound Mitre Saw
- A powered saw used to accurately cut straight, cross or compound mitres.
- Copper Faced Hammer
- A hammer with a round head made of copper or brass.
- Cordless Screwdriver
- A battery powered handheld screwdriver.
- Countersink
- To counter bore a hole such that the head of a screw may sit flush with the surface.
- Cross Cut Chisel
- Used for cutting grooves and slots.
- C-Spanner
- A spanner whose end is shaped like a C, used to loosen the lockring on a bottom bracket of a bicycle.
- Cutting Speed
- The surface speed of the workpiece in a lathe or a rotating cutter.
- Dial Indicator Gauge
- Used to measure shaft runout or deviation from a nominal position.
- Diamond Point Chisel
- Used for cleaning out corners or difficult places and pulling over centre punch marks wrongly placed for drilling.
- Die Stock
- The frame and two handles which hold the dies used for cutting external screw threads.
- Double-Ended Spanner
- A tool which has a hexagon ring at each end.
- Dovetail Saw
- A saw designed for cutting dovetail joints and other wood joints.
- Drain Plug Spanner
- A tool for removing and tightening drain plugs.
- Drill Bits
- Normally made of hardened or high speed steel with two cutting edges on the conical end with two helical flutes that act to move material away from the cutting edges.
- Drill Chuck
- A device used to grip drills and attach them to a rotating spindle.
- Drill Gauge
- A flat steel plate drilled with holes of various sizes, each marked with the correct size or number into which small twist drills may be fitted to determine the size of their diameters.
- Drill Press
- An upright power-driven machine for drilling holes in metal, wood, or other material.
- Emery Cloth
- Fabric backed abrasive paper.
- End Cutters
- A pair of pliers with the cutting action on the end of the jaws.
- Engine Crane
- A crane designed specifically for lifting engines and gearboxes into and out of vehicle engine bays.
- Faceplate
- A large circular plate with slots and holes for mounting the workpiece to be machined. It is attached to the headstock of a lathe.
- Feeler Gauges
- A set of steel fingers of different thicknesses that can be used to set the gap between two objects.
- File
- A hand tool used to shape material by abrasion.
- Finishing Hammer
- A pounding device used for detail work in shaping a panel after it has been brought approximately into the right shape.
- Flare Nut Spanner
- A spanner which looks almost like an open ended spanner except the end curls around the nut further.
- Flat Chisel
- Used to cut bars and rods to reduce surfaces and to cut sheet metal which is too thick or difficult to cut with tin snips.
- Flat Nose Pliers
- Pliers with short pointed jaws.
- Flat Wood Drill
- A wood drill that has a centre point to locate the drill and flats that bore the hole.
- Floorboard Saw
- A saw with teeth which run around the back edge for easier cutting of floorboards in situ.
- Frame Clamp
- Uses corner blocks and long-threaded rods with sliding speed nuts to assemble square, rectangular and other oddly-shaped work pieces.
- Fretsaw
- A fine handsaw that is used to cut intricate designs.
- G Clamp
- A screw-activated clamping device in the shape of the letter G.
- Girder Spanner
- An adjustable spanner with jaws at right angles to the handle.
- Glass Cutter
- A handtool with a hardened wheel or diamond at the end that is used to score the surface of glass so that it may be broken along the scored line.
- Glasspaper
- An abrasive paper used to smooth the rough edges of freshly sawn wood.
- Glue
- Cement or adhesive that is used to fix two or more parts together.
- Grinder
- Mechanical device used to smooth metals.
- Hacksaw
- A metal blade of hardened steel having small, close teeth on one edge, held under tension in a U-shaped frame.
- Hammer
- A hand tool with a metal head and a handle. It is used to force one item against or through another.
- Hand Saw
- The most common saw. This has a wide tapering blade with teeth cut along one edge and a handle riveted to the wide end.
- Height Gauge
- A device used to accurately measure height above a ground flat surface.
- Hole Saw
- A tube with teeth on one end and a drill in the centre used in a hand or powered drill for cutting holes.
- Hot Glue Gun
- A tool with a heating element that is used to apply a thermoplastic glue.
- Jack
- Mechanical or hydraulic device for lifting heavy equipment off the floor.
- Jigsaw
- A handheld powered saw with a reciprocating blade.
- Junior Hacksaw
- A metal blade of hardened steel having small, close teeth on one edge, held under tension in a sprung U-shaped frame.
- Lathe
- A machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.
- Letter Drills
- This system of numbering drills is no longer used, but may be of use in deciphering old drawings.
- Locking Pliers
- A type of pliers with locking jaws that can be used as pliers, wrench, clamp, or small vice.
- Long Nose Pliers
- Pliers with half round and tapered jaws.
- Marking Gauge
- A gauge that is used to scribe a line parallel to a reference edge or surface.
- Micrometer
- An instrument used to measure the size of a body.
- Mitre Saw
- A hand operated saw that is held in an adjustable frame used to accurately cut straight, cross or compound mitres.
- Mole Grips
- A type of pliers with locking jaws that can be used as pliers, wrench, clamp, or small vice.
- Morse Taper
- A self-holding standard taper largely used on small cutting tools.
- Multimeter
- Electronic meter that displays voltage, current and resistance.
- Nail Hammer
- A hammer designed to hit the head of nails and usually has a claw device which allows for the removal of nails.
- Needle File
- Small files of various cross-sections that are used for detailed work.
- Needle Nose Pliers
- Pliers with half round and tapered jaws. Also known as Long Nose Pliers.
- Number Drills
- This system of numbering drills is no longer used, but may be of use in deciphering old drawings.
- Nylon Hammer
- A soft face hammer with a nylon face.
- Paintbrush
- Brush used to apply paint.
- Panel Hammer
- A special hammer for metalworking.
- Panel Saw
- Also known as a hand saw.
- Peen Hammer
- A body hammer with a pein of triangular section with a fairly sharply shaped end.
- Pein Hammer
- A body hammer with a pein of triangular section with a fairly sharply shaped end.
- Pick Hammer
- A hammer with a round head for conventional planishing and a small pick-shaped head for working away in sharp or tight corners.
- Pin Spanner
- A spanner with pins on forked ends, used to turn an adjustable cup on the bottom bracket of a bicycle.
- Plain Screwdriver
- A screwdriver with a flat tip designed to fit in the simple slot on the head of a screw.
- Pliers
- A gripping tool with two hinged arms and serrated jaws.
- Riffler
- A small file with a curved surface.
- Ring Spanner
- Each end of the spanner fits around the bolt head or nut.
- Ripping Hammer
- A hammer which looks like a claw hammer, but the claw is straight.
- Riveting Hammer
- A hammer with a special head for securing rivets.
- Round Nose Chisel
- Used for cutting semi-circular grooves for oil ways in bearings.
- Round Nose Pliers
- Pliers with a round nose.
- Rubber Mallet
- A hammer with a rubber head.
- Ruler
- A straight edge with graduation marks used to measure and draw or cut straight lines.
- Sandpaper
- An abrasive paper used to smooth the rough edges of freshly sawn wood.
- Saw
- A tool with a blade or disc with teeth along the edge used to cut metal, wood, plastic and many other materials.
- Scraper
- A hardened steel hand tool used to scrape surfaces very smooth by removing minute amounts of metal.
- Screwdriver
- A tool that locates on the head of a screw and allows a torque to be applied to turn it.
- Shrinking Hammer
- A special hammer with faces shaped to allow for correction of locally stretched sheet metal.
- Side Cutters
- A tool like a pair of pliers except the end opposite the handles have sharp edges used to cut wire.
- Sledge Hammer
- A large, heavy hammer usually with a long handle.
- Slide Hammer
- A tool with a long round shaft on which a hammer weight slides.
- Smooth Plane
- A general purpose wood plane, often used after the jack plane for final polishing.
- Snipe Nose Pliers
- Pliers with half round and tapered jaws. Also known as Long Nose Pliers.
- Socket Wrench
- A tool with socket end or a drive tool combined with a socket.
- Spanner
- A tool used to turn a nut and bolt. Wrench is another name for spanner.
- Spirit Level
- A tool for testing if a surface is level using a glass tube containing an air bubble.
- Squeeze Clamps
- Light duty clamps applied with one hand with an automatic advancing squeeze handle.
- Table Saw
- A rotating disc, driven by an electric motor, with teeth around the circumference.
- Tack Hammer
- A special hammer with a magnetic head for inserting small nails or tacks.
- Tandem Mill
- Arrangement of rolling mills, in direct line, allowing the metal to pass from one set of rolls to the next for the reduction of steel.
- Tang
- The flat on the shank of a cutting tool, such as a drill, reamer or end mill, that fits a slot in -the spindle of a machine to keep the tool from slipping.
- Tap Wrench
- A bar with a hole and clamping device or T-bar design to hold a tap used to make internal threads.
- Tenon Saw
- Fine-toothed hand saw used to cut tenons and other wood joints accurately.
- Three-Way Edge Clamp
- C-clamp design with a third screw that applies right angle pressure to the edge.
- Tinners Hammer
- A hammer used to shape tin plates.
- Tommy Bar
- A rod which is inserted into the holes of a box spanner.
- Toolbox
- A box design to protect and allow a set of tools to be carried around.
- Torque Wrench
- A manual wrench which incorporates a gauge or other method to indicate the amount of torque transferred to the nut or bolt.
- Trowel
- A handtool with a flat sheet steel surface that is rectangular or pointed and is used to manipulate and finish concrete or plaster.
- Tube Cutter
- A device designed to cut tubes with a rotating action and a blade that is gradually tightened onto the tube.
- Twist Drill
- A commonly used metal-cutting drill, usually made with two flutes running around the body.
- Universal Grinder
- A versatile grinding machine designed to perform both internal and external grinding operations.
- Universal Vice
- A vice designed for holding work at a double or compound angle.
- Vernier Caliper
- The vernier caliper provides the three basic functions of inner, outer and depth gauge.
- Wire Brush
- A brush with metal bristles used to remove loose material from metal surfaces.
- Wire Stripping Pliers
- Pliers with V-shaped cutting jaws and a screw to adjust minimum jaw closing to match wire size.
- Wood Lathe
- A machine tool which spins a block of material to perform various operations to create an object which has symmetry about an axis of rotation.
- Wooden Mallet
- A hammer with a wooden head.
- Wrench
- A tool used to turn a nut and bolt.
 
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