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Tools

Things to learn:
1. Screwdrivers:
Install several screws with a Standard screwdriver.
Install several screws with a Phillips screwdriver.

2. Hammers:
Fasten two pieces of wood together by nailing them with
a claw hammer.
Drive several nails half-way and remove them with a
claw hammer.

3. Wrenches:
Install and remove several bolts with an open-end wrench
or box end wrench.
Install and remove several bolts with a ratchet and socket.
Very lightly install and remove several bolts with an
adjustable wrench.

We have just begun to learn about tools. There are thou-


sands more use tools. Learn to identify and use six more
tools. Name each tool you used and on what you used it
in your notebook.
Standard phillips Torx

A Standard screw- The tip of the Phillips A Torx screwdriver


driver has a flat blade screwdriver has four has a tip that is
or tip. flutes that fit four shaped like a star. It
Exercise care with slots in the head of a is the least likely to
the standard screw- Phillips head screw. cause damage by
driver. It is the easiest A Phillips is easier to misalignment.
type with which to keep aligned with the
damage the screw by screw. The most
misalignment. common size is #1,
#2, and #3.
Claw Ball Peen Sledgehammer

Nuts and Bolts come


in all different shapes
and sizes. A nut and
the head of a bolt
usually each have six
flat sides and six
corners.

A claw hammer is the A ball-peen hammer A sledgehammer is a


most commonly used is a mechanic’s ham- very heavy hammer
hammer. It is mer. Used for work- with a long handle. It
a carpenter’s ham- ing with metal, and requires the use of
mer, and is designed for striking chisels both hands to swing
to work with nails. and punches. They it. It is used for driv-
The claw face is used can also be used to ing large stakes, or
to drive nails. The cut metal or stone. for any job that re-
claw is used to quires a very large
remove nails. amount of force.
Open End Box End Comination

Ratchet & Adjustable Pipe


Socket

An open end wrench A box-end wrench is A combination


is a fixed size wrench a wrench with a wrench is exactly
that is open on the closed end that com- what the name im-
end so that it can be pletely surrounds the plies. It is a combina-
slipped onto a nut or head of the bolt. It tion between an open
bolt from the side. If can be used for very -end wrench and a
the fastener is not too tight bolts because it box-end wrench.
tight, an open end grips the head of the
wrench may be used bolt all the way
to turn the bolt. around.
Standard Channel Long Nose

Vise Grips Diagonal Standard pliers, or


slip-joint pliers, are
usually simply called
pliers. The jaws are
basically straight and
usually have some
sort of teeth for addi-
tional gripping.

A ratchet and Socket An adjustable wrench A pipe wrench is


wrench is a type of is a single wrench used to thread pipes
wrench that is made that will fit many dif- together. Pipe
up of two pieces. A ferent sizes of bolts wrenches are usually
socket surrounds the and anything that has used in pairs.
bolt head, while the two flat sides oppo-
ratchet allows the site each other.
handle to freely turn
in one direction but
not the other.
Channel lock pliers
have jaws that curve to
one side. This helps to
improve their ability to
grip an object when
turning toward the
curve, so they must be
turned around to twist
the object in the other
direction.

The long-nose pliers Vise grips are pliers Diagonal cutters are
have a jaw that is whose jaws can be pliers that are used
long and tapered squeezed around an for cutting. They are
nearly to a point. This object and locked so normally used to cut
makes them good for that the pliers grip the and strip electrical
reaching into very object tightly by them- wires, but are some-
small working areas. selves. This make it time used to cut small
They are often used easier to turn the ob- nails, brads, other
for working with ject because is uses
items.
less concentration.
wire.

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