Power Tools

heavy duty drill

Mostly used in plumbing to drill large diameter holes.

kickback guard

Prevents lumber from "kicking back" when being cut.

ring test

A method of testing the condition of a grinding wheel. The wheel is mounted on a rod and tapped. A clear ring means the wheel is in good condititon; a dull thud means the wheel is in poor condition and should be disposed of.

oscillating spindle sander

A power sander that uses various diameter cylinders covered with a sanding sleeve. The cylinder turns and moves up and down to sand wood.

disc sander

A power sander with a 12" sanding disc for sanding wood or metal.

trigger lock

A small lever, switch, or part that you push or pull to activate a locking catch or spring. Activation this device causes the power tool to stay in the operating mode even when you finger is not on it. Do not use this with hand power tools.

belt sander

A stationary power sander that uses a 1" continuous abrasive belt for sanding wood or metal.

router/shaper

A stationary power tool with a shaped cutter blade for forming the edge on wood boards.

thickness planer

A stationary tool used to make the faces of a board flat and parallel. Wood is fed between the roller/ knife and the table.

Chuck Key

All bits are held in the drill by this and they can be either keyed or key-less.

scalloping

Creating a decorative edge with a repeating half-circle pattern.

Band saw

One continuous band of flexible steel available in different sizes used for cutting wood or metal into non-linear shapes

saw guard

Protects the person using the saw from injury and also protects the saw from damage.

worm drive circular saw

Similar to the circular saw but more heavy duty. Uses a specail drive to create more torque at the saw blade.

cast iron (jointer)

The material formed when molten iron is poured into molds.

arbor collar

The piece that surrounds the arbor.

Hydraulic Jack or Porta Power™

These demolition jacks are used for pushing heavy machinery and other heavy objects; for pulling wheels, bearings, gears, and cylinder liners; and for straightening or bending frames.They have two basic parts: the pump and the cylinder.The two parts are joined by a high-pressure hydraulic hose.

Hammer Drill Bits

These drill bits can take more of a pounding.

Angle Grinder or Side Grinder

These grinders are used to grind away hard, heavy materials and for grinding surfaces, such as pipe, plates, or welds.

Soldering Guns

These guns are a solder-melting tool that has a step-down transformer. This applies a low voltage across the tip. The current passing through the tip produces enough heat to melt solder.

Powder-Actuated Fastening Tool guns

These guns are used to drive various fasteners into concrete and structural steel.The gun ignites blasting powder to drive fasteners into tough material.The tool may be either direct acting or indirect acting.

Reciprocating Saw or Sawsall™

These saws are designed for more heavy duty jobs. You can use longer and tougher blades than the other saws. They can saw through walls or ceilings and create openings for windows, plumbing lines, and more.

Circular Saw, utility saw, electric handsaw, or builder's saw

These saws are designed to cut lumber and boards to size for a project.

Saber Saws or jig Saws

These saws have very fine blades, which makes them great tools for doing delicate and intricate work, such as cutting out patterns or irregular shapes from wood or thin, soft metals.They are also one of the best tools for cutting circles.

End Grinder, pencil grinder, or horizontal grinder

These smaller grinders are used to smooth the inside of materials such as pipe.

Power Staplers and Nailers guns

These two in one guns which most of them are air pneumatic powered this is a hand-held machine used to drive heavy metal staples into wood, plastic, or masonry.They speeds up work and allows the carpenter to work in tight places where swinging a hammer might be difficult or impossible.

Flat-bladed Spade Drill Bit

This bit is also used in wood. The bit size is measured by the spade's diameter, which ranges from 1/2 to 1 1/2 inches.

Auger Drill Bit

This bit is used for drilling wood and other soft materials, but not for drilling metal. As a rule, the point of a bit should be sharper for softer materials than for harder ones.

Forstner Drill Bit

This bit is used on wood and is particularly good for boring any part of a circle.

Masonry Drill Bit

This bit which has a carbide tip, is used in concrete, stone, slate, and ceramic.

guide fence

This controls position of lumber while it is being cut.

chipper

This cuts lumber pieces into very small pieces called "chips."

Spiral cutter head

This cutter head create the grooves running the length of your board.Also, there are no aluminum cutter heads produced for jointer or planers.

Hammer Drill

This drill has a pounding action that lets you drill into concrete, brick, or tile. The bit rotates and hammers at the same time, allowing you to drill much faster than you could with a regular drill.

Electromagnetic drill

This drill is a portable drill mounted that is used for drilling thick metal. When the drill is placed on metal and is turned on, the magnetic base will hold the drill in place for drilling.The drill can also be rotated on the base.

Pneumatic Drill

This drill is powered by compressed air from an air hose. They have many of the same parts, controls, and uses as electric drills.

Bench Grinder

This grinder is electrically powered stationary grinding machines. They usually have two grinding wheels that are used for grinding, rust removal, and metal buffing.

Detail Grinder

This grinder uses small attachments, also called points, to smooth and polish intricate metallic work. These shank mounted points attachments, are commonly found in sizes ranging from 1/16 to 1/4 inch.

Drywall screw shooters or screw guns

This gun looks like a drill, but has a "nose" instead of a chuck. The nose holds an interchangeable 0.25 inches 6 mm shank bit, commonly known as a tip. The most common type of tip is a 1 inch 25 mm #2 phillips.

Soldering Iron

This iron is a tool used to melt solder. This iron's heat produced as current passes through a heating element. The heating element uses a coil with high resistance wire.

radial arm saw's arm

This is a arm on a saw that is a cutting machine consisting of a circular saw mounted on a sliding horizontal arm.

Twist Drill Bit

This is a bit used to drill wood and plastics at high speeds or to drill metal at lower speed.

feather board

This is a device that holds material tighter to the fence and acts like an extra hand.

drill press

This is a drill press also known as a pedestal drill, pillar drill, or bench drill) is a fixed style of drill that may be mounted on a stand or bolted to the floor or workbench. Portable models with a magnetic base grip the steel workpieces they drill.

drum sander

This is a drum sander proves invaluable for working with wide panels or figured wood.

lathe

This is a machine for shaping wood or metal by means of a rotating drive that turns the piece being worked on against a cutting blade.

surfacer

This is a machine that planes lumber - making its surface smooth.

drill press motor belt

This is a motor belt and by adjusting the location of the drive belt on the pulleys you can set the drill press to five different speeds

Corded Drill/Electric Drill

This is a power drill that get their power from AC wall plug source. The drill is most commonly used to make holes by spinning drill bits into wood, metal, plastic and other materials it also used to drive screws or to cut small holes in lumber, or to prepare a site for a nail or screw.

Cordless Drill

This is a power drill that get their power from DC battery source and usually contain a rechargeable battery pack that runs the motor. This drill is useful for working in awkward areas or in areas where a power source is hard to find.

Sanding disc

This is a round disc , flat piece that remove surface defects, rust, paint and corrosion, making your projects look as good as new.

Wood shaper

This is a shaperit does essentially the same job as the router table, with the main difference being that this shaper is a stationary machine designed for larger volume work while a router is a hand tool for lighter duty work. Routers can also be mounted on a router table, and used as a stationary tool.

drill press motor pulley

This is a simple machine that consists of 2 or more wheels working together to improve mechanical advantage.

wingnut

This is a small cylindrical fastener that has internal threads and "wings" that allow people to tighten or release it by hand.

Power Miter Saw

This is a special saw to operate carpenter sets the angle from a scale marked off in degrees.The cut is made by pulling downward on the handle.

splitter

This is a tool that separates wood fibers along the grain.

bore

This is a tool with a spinning circular cutter to cut holes in lumber.

Plate joiner or biscuit cutter woodworking tool

This is a woodworking tool used to join two pieces of wood together.This is a portable tool for cutting slots in the edges of lumber for wood plate. Trim carpenters use this tool to assemble casing lumber and joining shelves and facings of cabinets built on site

chuck

This is the mechanism on a drill that holds the bit.

raker tooth

This is the some crosscut saws use special teeth called "rakers" designed to clean out the cut strips of wood from the kerf. Crosscut saws generally have larger teeth than rip saws.

worm drive gears

This is what the gears look like in a worm drive circular saw. These gears create great torque which turns the blade.

Pavement Breaker or Jackhammer

This large scale demolition jack is frequently used in construction such as tearing down brick and concrete walls and breaking up concrete or pavement.

bevel locking lever

This lever, placed just under the saw table surface on the front of the cabinet, locks the angle setting of the blade.

router

This machine cuts a curved or decorative finish around the edge of a piece of lumber.

Powered Nailer gun

This nail gun greatly speed up the installation of materials such as wallboard, molding, framing members, and shingles.They are driven by compressed air traveling through air lines connected to an air compressor.

arbor nut

This nut is the screw that fits through the top of the lap and secures it to the arbor.

lock miter router bit

This router bit cuts a 45-degree miter with a tongue and groove. When correctly cut, the parts go together at a perfect 90-degree angle and the interlocking tongues and grooves make for lots of mechanical strength and glue surface area.

Random orbital sander

This sander can be used circular and back and forth. This sander combines both types of movement into one sander.

Portable belt sander

This sander is used to remove rough areas from large, flat sections of wood: for trimming off excess wood; and for stripping old finishes such as paint and varnish.

Finishing Sander

This sander is used when an even, smooth surface is desired, such as needed for painting. These sanders are used to have either orbital circular or oscillating back and forth movement.

Frame and trim saw

This saw can crosscuts, miters, bevels, and makes compound cuts. It crosscuts, miters, bevels, and makes compound cuts on any stock up to 2 x 12

Table Saw

This saw is a basic machines used in cabinetmaking. Carpenters use them to some extent for cutting and fitting moldings and other inside trim work.

Radial arm saw

This saw is especially useful in cutting compound miters. It is also a good tool for cutting larger dimension lumber which is difficult to slide across a saw table. The proper saw setup for cutting a large sheet of plywood.

Portable Handheld Bandsaw

This saw is used when it is better to move the saw to the work than to move the work to the saw. It can be used to cut pipe, metal, plastic, wood, and irregularly shaped materals

Chain saw

This saw may be needed to cut heavy timbers, posts, and pilings. Both gas and electric models are available,but gasoline powered types are more powerful.

vertical/horizontal belt sander

This stationary sander is used to smooth the edges of various types of wood. It is mounted on a stand or work bench. It is powered by A/C voltage, wall plug.

Jointer woodworking machine

This woodworking machine used to produce a flat surface along a board's length and are commonly used to dress the edges and ends of boards. They may also be used for planing a face, cutting a rabbet, bevel, chamber, or taper.

Portable Power Planer woodworking tool

This woodworking tool produces finished wood surfaces with speed and accuracy. The motor which operates at a speed of about 20,000 rpm, drives a spiral cutter. The depth of cut is adjusted by raising or lowering the front shoe.

Belt sander and disc sander

Used for trimming accurately to a line used for marking out or making a material flat. Guards and dust extraction should be used. PPE

Hegner saw/scroll saw

Used to cut intricate curves. Different blades available for a variety of materials and tasks. Material must be held down securely. PPE

Wood lathe

Uses a turning action to produce round and tapered shapes. Metal lathes can be used for more precise work. PPE