Hand and Power Tools
Health and Safety Practices
- Be cautious while working with any tool.
- Make sure you have proper clothes, footwear for working in that environment.
- Make sure you using machines with proper care such as fixing wood while cutting.
- Take care while working with sharp/pointed tool.
- Make sure you wear safety-eye-wear for protection when using tools.
- Clean the machine once you completed your work with that.
Brief about Tools
Hand Tools
A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor.
- Dead Blow Hammer: A dead blow hammer is a specialized mallet helpful in minimizing damage to the struck surface and in limiting peak striking force, with minimal elastic rebound from the struck surface.
- Claw Hammer: A claw hammer is a tool primarily used for driving nails into, or pulling nails from, some other object.
- Hand Saw: It is used to cut pieces of wood into different shapes. This is usually done in order to join the pieces together and carve a wooden object
- Coping Saw: coping saw is a type of bow saw used to cut intricate external shapes and interior cut-outs in woodworking or carpentry.
- Hand Drill: A hand drill is a fastening tool used to secure screws or bolts.
- Nail: A nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener
- Screws: A screw is a type of fastener, in some ways similar to a bolt (see Differentiation between bolt and screw below).
- Try Square: An implement used to check and mark right angles in constructional work.
- Pliers: Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe. They are also useful for bending and compressing a wide range of materials.
- Nuts: A nut is a type of fastener with a threaded hole. Nuts are almost always used in conjunction with a mating bolt to fasten multiple parts together.
- Chissel: A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal by hand, struck with a mallet, or mechanical power.
- Vernier Caliper: The Vernier caliper is an extremely precise measuring instrument; it is used to measure internal and external distances extremely accurately – the error may be as little as 0.05 mm – depending on the make.
Power Tools
A power tool is a tool that is actuated by an additional power source and mechanism other than the solely manual labor used with hand tools.
- Chop Saw: A chop saw is a power tool that used to make straight cuts in wood.The size of the blade allows carpenters to cut several thicknesses of wood.
- Drills: A drill is a tool primarily used for making round holes or driving fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driver, depending on application, secured by a chuck. Some powered drills also include a hammer function.
- Table Saw: A table saw is a woodworking tool, consisting of a circular saw blade, mounted on an arbor, that is driven by an electric motor. The blade protrudes through the top of a table, which provides support for the material, usually wood, being cut.
- Miter Saw: The almighty miter saw is a powerful tool designed for making cuts at quite a few different angles. Also known as “compound miter saws”, these work by having a blade mounted to a swing arm that can pivot either right or left to create cuts that are angled.
- Planner: The planer is a power tool that helps woodworkers create parallel pieces of wood for various projects. They’re used to make a board of wood that has already been jointed (hence the frequent comparison to jointers) flat into equal end-to-end thickness.
- Power Hacksaw: Power hacksaws are used to cut large sizes (sections) of metals such as steel. Cutting diameters of more than 10/15mm is very hard work with a normal hand held hacksaw.
- Bench Grinder: A bench grinder is a benchtop type of grinding machine used to drive abrasive wheels. A pedestal grinder is a similar or larger version of grinder that is mounted on a pedestal, which may be bolted to the floor or may sit on rubber feet.
- Sander Machine: A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a housing with means to hand-hold it or fix it to a workbench.