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Machinery and Tools

The Machinery and Tools category covers questions regarding hand tools, power tools, workshop machinery (such as lathes, milling machines, etc), welding and cutting tools and equipment, measuring instruments, earth-moving machinery, furnaces, factory and industrial machinery.

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What is a Flat of speed bore drill bit?

The classic Speed Bore bit has a large point in the centre, then two flats, bevelled on opposite sides, then two small points at the outside. All this gives it a very fast boring speed in wood,as the flats fling the waste backwards.

What are the Safety information about rope skipping?

Choose a rope appropriate to your size. ... It also helps if the rope isn't too light. Skipping rope is done with the feet together, pressing through the toes, but can be modified to create an excellent

What kind of a shop should you go and buy a chisel?

Any good hardware store, Rona or Home Depot all sell a good selection of chisels.

What is the function of the Philips head screwdriver?

The function of a Philips head screwdriver is to turn Philips head screws.

As technology improved how did the places where people shopped change?

One of the first things to change shopping was the car. Before the car people lived as close to the city center because they had to walk, took a trolley, or rode a horse to do business or shop. This is one reason in many cities today you find old houses ringing the downtown area. After the car was invented people could move away from the downtown area. This created a urbanization of cities and because they moved stores soon followed them to the new housing because people didn't want to drive downtown anymore. The downtown areas also started to decay and businesses moved to the newer areas. After WW2 this movement towards new housing tracts grew and eventually malls sprang up around the new housing. Schools were built to accommodate the young families and no one went to the older areas of the cities for services. Today, there is a movement to bring people back to the older parts of cities so old buildings are having investors rehabilitate them and reuse them for newer purposes. The cities want to make the downtown sections that have fallen to ruin and full of homeless vital again. New stores, art galleries, coffee houses, concert venues, and apartments bring people back to these places.

Why is the handle of a box wrench bent?

So the jaws can sit straight on a bolt, but you won't skin your knuckles while turning it.

What are the dangers of a steel rule?

When some one intentionally using it for cut somebodies throat, intentionally using for making injury on somebody, when using for taking measurement of a live electrical line. In short it repents on the application.