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The handle is the lever which allows you to pull nails or pound a nail with equal ease.

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What is the function of the claw in the claw hammer?

The handle is the lever which allows you to pull nails or pound a nail with equal ease.


What is the function of a claw hammer?

The function of a claw hammer is so that you can efficiently pull or lever out nails that went cactus on you when you were trying to hammer it in.


What is the function of claw hammer?

The function of a claw hammer is so that you can efficiently pull or lever out nails that went cactus on you when you were trying to hammer it in.


What is a claw hammer made from?

A steel head and a handle


Parts of hammer?

On a standard claw hammer you have the head which consists of the face for driving nails, and a claw for removing nails. The head of the hammer is attached to a handle or shaft to give it leverage.


What are the parts of a hammer?

the head with a face and a claw, the shaft with a handle/grip.


What is the function of th wedges in the claw hammer?

To remove nails.


What kind of simple machine is a claw hammer?

A claw hammer is a pair of levers perpendicular to each other. When you exert force on the handle of the hammer, it transfers it's work to the second lever, or the head of the hammer. That then creates work at the claw, where you are pulling that nail with much greater force than you could exert without the hammer.


Uses of claw hammer in the world?

A general purpose hammer that comes in many sizes and shapes. The common one weighs around 24 ounces and has a 12" handle, The 'framing hammer' is a larger version with a long fairly flat claw and a heavy head mounted on a handle 16-18 inches long. These are used for heavy pounding of long nails, and the claw for removing same. In all it's varieties this is possibly the world's most common hammer


What part of a hammer is a simple machine?

it is a lever because it has the effort, fulcrum and load official


Name of parts of a claw hammer and where the part is located on the hammer?

part of claw hammer that strikes the head of the nail


What are the uses of claw hammer?

The claw hammer can not only hammer a nail into wood but can , by way of the claw , grasp the head of the nail and be used to pry/leverage the nail from wood .