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Hand Tools
Hand tools are hand-operated products that assist workers in building, gardening, and fixing a variety of objects.
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Who invented the Phillips screwdriver?
1936: Henry F. Phillips receives patents for a new kind of screw and the new screwdriver needed to make it work. It changes the worlds of mass production and machine repair, not to mention your home toolbox.
Phillips was a Portland, Oregon, businessman who invented something to solve a problem that few home-repair folk or do-it-yourselfers even knew existed. In those days, if you wanted to drive a screw into a hole, you just grabbed the right-size slotted screwdriver and did the deed.
The only thing you needed to puzzle over was the size. Too big wouldn't fit; too small wouldn't give you enough torque.
So why do you now need to grab the right kind, as well as size, of screwdriver? It's enough to make you cross.
Phillips wasn't trying to make life with hand tools easier. He was trying to solve an industrial problem. To drive a slot screw, you need hand-eye coordination to line up the screwdriver and the slot. If you're a machine - especially a 1930s machine - you ain't got no eye, and your hand coordination may depend on humans.
The Phillips-head screw and Phillips screwdriver were designed for power tools, especially power tools on assembly lines. The shallow, cruciform slot in the screw allows the tapering cruciform shape of the screwdriver to seat itself automatically when contact and rotation are achieved. That saves a second or two, and if you've got hundreds of screws in thousands of units (say, cars), you're talking big time here.
To throw a wrench in the works means to disrupt or interfere with a plan or process, causing problems or delays. It typically refers to an unexpected issue that hampers progress or complicates a situation.
What does the indicator light mean for a car with a wrench inside on a 2003 Saturn L200?
time for some maintenance item check your owners manual
Will home depot will take a husky tool for exchange with no receipt
Flint is a very rigid stone which will often shatter in flakes when struck. Depending on how the flint is hit, it's possible to get the flakes to shatter with fairly sharp edges, often suitable for tools like knives or axes.
at school this is one of my favourite things to do instead of listening to my English teacher. a metal ruler is best but a desk or chair will do fine. you rub and scrape the edge of the scissors against whatever you have and jsut keep at this and eventually it will sharpen.
Answertake then to a saw sharpener or you can use scissors to cut some sand paper do this several times and it will put the edge back to scissors ANSWER:Dont know why, but I have always been told to cut aluminum foil with them. It aligns the edge at a micro-cellular level.State the purpose of using thin oil on an oil stone when sharpening hand tools?
The oil serves to to remove the heat of from friction between the oil stone and the parts of the tool in contact with it. It also washes away the products of wear, the swarf - the particles of stone and steel that are worn off by the grinding action. These are the same reasons that water is used on a grind stone.
because its harder in...hardness than the material you are chiseling and chips away pieces because it is 'pointy' and penetrates the material being chiseled out.
Three ways of correctly using and maintaining cutting tools?
The maintenance needed for the blades of cutting tools is sharpening or replacing the blades when they get dull. For power cutting tools, oil must be checked and added when low. If they have a spark plug, they must be replaced from time to time. For battery cutting tools, the battery must be charged when low and new ones must be purchased from time to time.
Powered cutting tools must be kept out of the rain. Blades of cutting tools need to be kept clean.
Meaning of channel-lock pliers?
Tongue in groover type pliers made by the Channel Lock Inc tool company of USA.
How do you tighten the handle on a hammer?
You first make sure the socket in the head is clear and smooth. Fit your shaft into this socket and bang the other end on a firm surface, -the head will settle into position, but now needs to be pounded on with a soft face or dead blow hammer. When the end of the shaft is level with end of head you have it in position. Now you pound a small metal wedge into the end of the shaft to spread it. These wedges are available in all hardware stores in packs of 3-4 quite cheaply.
What garden tool begins with the letter A?
A garden tool that is used for digging and starts with the letter "s" is the garden shovel called a spade.
What are diagonal cutting pliers?
Diagonal pliers (alos called wire cutters or diagonal-cutting pliers) are pliers intended for the cutting of wire (they are generally not used to grab or turn anything). They are sometimes called side cutting pliers or side cutters, although these terms are shared by other pliers designs, such as lineman's pliers, and may lead to confusion. The plane defined by the cutting edges of the jaws intersects the joint rivet at an angle or "on a diagonal", hence the name. Instead of using a shearing action as with scissors, they cut by indenting and wedging the wire apart. The jaw edges are ground to a symmetrical "V" shape; thus the two jaws can be visualized to form the letter "X", as seen end-on when fully occluded. The pliers are made of tempered steel and inductive heating and quenching are often used to selectively harden the jaws.
What are the uses of flat tip screw driver?
a flat head screwdriver is used to drive or to screw screws.
A hacksaw is used to cut metals. The blades are easily changeable and come in many tooth sizes. Very hard metals like tool steel need many small teeth, so here you would fit a very hard 32 or 36 tpi blade (teeth per inch). Softer metals can be cut with cheaper blades with teeth of about 12 -16 per inch.
What are linesman pliers used for?
Cutting wire or wire nails, twisting wire, and using them as a temporary clamp are all appropriate uses of lineman's pliers. I've even used them to hold a nail in a particularly precarious position so that I could safely drive in the nail with a hammer.
How is chisel different from carved?
chisel is when you would use a chisel, (a tool), to carve any shape or whatever out.
carving is when you you use any carving tool to get a shape.
How do pliers make work easier?
Pliers make work easier by holding parts. By gripping small things in awkward locations. In the case of long-nose pliers by reaching into places you can't get fingers in. Many other uses are found almost every time you use pliers.
What is the antonym for chisel?
One type of chisel is called a gouge. An ax-like tool related to a chisel is called an adze.
The verb "to chisel" has the synonyms sculpt, carve, shape, or fashion.
The slang term "chisel" means to swindle, cheat, or defraud.
What is a function of light hoe?
A light (as in light-weight) hoe is a hand-held garden tool. It is used to weed between rows of plants or vegetables. It is a long pole with a squarish metal blade on one end. The blade is pushed into the top of the soil to chop off weeds at their roots.
