Hand & Power Tools Flashcards
Marking Out
What is a Chinagraph pencil used for?
Marking on plastics. e.g acrylic.
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What is a pencil used for?
A pencil is used to markout and write on wood. It will later be sanded down so can be removed unlike ink.
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What is a scriber used for?
Marking out cuts and bends on metal.
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What is a Marking knife used for?
A marking Knife is used to mark out on all materials. It helps because it can input a guide for the saw.
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What is an Odd leg caliper used for?
An Odd leg caliper is used to scribe parallel lines onto materials.
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What are Marking, Mortise & Cutting gauges used for?
To mark the wood before a cut to prevent tearout later when doing the main cut. (Marking knife and odd leg caliper combined for wood)
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What is the Try Square used for?
The try square is used as a guide for marking out 90° angles on wood.
Also known as a set square
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What is the engineers square used for?
The engineers square is used as a guide for marking out 90° angles on metal.
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What is the combination square used for?
ensuring the accuracy of a 90° angle, measuring a 45° angle, measuring the center of a circular object, finding the depth, and simple distance measurements.
Sometimes used to discover inside / outside angles - when needing to join skirting boards at corners of walls, for example
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What is the use of a framing square?
To mark walls or other materials accurately
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What is a set square used for?
marking out right angles before any joint is cut.
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What is a mitre sqaure used for?
Marking out 45° and 135° angles
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What is a sliding bevel used for?
To help measure an unknown angle.
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What is a winding stick used for?
Aids in viewing twist (also known as wind) in pieces of lumber by amplifying the defect.
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What is a pair of compasses used for?
Marking out circles with a certain radius.
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What are dividers used for?
Marking out and measuring certain distances.
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What is a bradawl use for?
Marking out where to drill in pieces of wood.
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What is a centre punch used for?
Marking out where to drill in pieces of metal
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What is a steel rule used for?
Getting accurate measurements for materials up to 300mm.
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What is a Vernier Caliper used for?
Measuring exact thicknesses of materials. Measuring the exact diameter of an object.
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What is a Micrometer used for?
Measuring very small objects.
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What is a Centre finder used for?
to align the machining center to a precision location on a work piece.
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What are French Curves used for?
Used in drafting (or they were before computer-aided design) to draw smooth curves of almost any desired curvature in mechanical technical drawings.
Hand saws
What is a panel saw used for?
To cut large sheet materials into smaller rectangular sections and pieces
Hand saws
What is a Tenon saw used for?
Short, accurate cuts in demanding precision jobs such as joinery or furniture-making.
Hand saws
What is a dovetail saw used for?
Very precise cuts, typically in joint making including dovetail and small tenon joints
Hand saws
What is a coping saw used for?
to cut intricate external shapes and interior cut-outs in woodworking or carpentry.
Hand saws
What is a hacksaw used for?
Cutting through materials such as plastic, steel, and other metals.
Hand saws
What is a sheet metal saw used for?
To cut through a pipe, metal stock, and heavier gauge sheet metal
Hand saws
What is a Japanese saw used for?
Used to cut wood and Japanese carpentry that cuts on the pull stroke. (towards user). The sawblade is usally very long so useful for cutting off pieces of dowel in hard to reach places, for example
Hand Shearing tools
What are scisors used for?
Scissors are used for cutting thin sheet materials
Hand Shearing tools
What are Tin snips used for?
Tin snips are used for cutting sheet metal
Hand Shearing tools
What are wire cutters used for?
To cut copper, brass, iron, aluminum, and steel wire.
Hand Shearing tools
What are wire strippers used for?
To remove the insulation from electric wires.
Hand Planes
What is a jointer used for?
To flatten, smooth, and square the edges of a lumber board
Hand Planes
What is a Jack used for?
A jack is used to lift heavy loads. Usually used to lift a car off the ground so that a tyre can be changed
Hand Planes
What is a cork block used for?
Sand paper is wraped around it to help smooth things.
Hand Planes
What is a chisel used for?
mainly hand-held tools designed with an edge sharpened to cut through materials including: wood, metals, and stone
Hand Planes
What is a spookeshave used for?
to shape and smooth woods in woodworking jobs such as making cart wheel spokes, chair legs, paddles, bows, and arrows
Hand files
What is flat file used for?
Has a tapered blade and is useful for working on one side of a square shape whilst avoiding the others.
Hand Files
What is a square file used for?
The triangular-looking file is used to make triangle cuts in wood.
Hand files
What is a round file used for?
The circular file is used to make round cuts into wood.
Hand rasps
What is a Bastard hand rasp used for?
It is designed for deburring and filing of sharp corners, internal shoulders and is ideal for use on flat surfaces
Hand rasps
What are surform hand rasps used for?
To smooth pruning cuts and shape exposed wood.
