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This file, also called triangular files, have a triangular cross-section, which usually gradually tapers. Some files taper all the way to a point.This file is used for many cuts, such as cutting angles less than 90 degrees. They are often employed for sharpening the teeth of wood saws.

3-Square file

This wrench has a smooth-jawed adjustable wrench used for turning nuts, bolts, small pipe fittings, and chrome plated pipe fittings.

Adjustable End Wrench or Crescent wrench

This square is used for laying out square and angled lines on large surfaces such as plywood, paneling, wallboard, etc.

Adjustable T-Square or Drywall Square

This screwdriver conforms to screws that can also be operated with hex keys; it is suitable for socket-head screws that are recessed.

Allen screwdriver

This meter tester is a measuring instrument used to measure the electric current in a circuit. Electric currents are measured in amperes (A), hence the name. Instruments used to measure smaller currents, in the milliampere or microampere range, are designated as milliammeters or microammeters.

Ammeter tester

This is a meter instrument used for measuring the voltage, between two points in an electrical or electronic circuit. Some are intended for use in direct current (DC) circuits; others are designed for alternating current (AC) circuits. Specialized meters can measure radio frequency (RF) voltage.

Analog Voltmeter

This tester is used to determine if an electrical path can be established between two points; that is if an electrical circuit can be made. The indicator may be an electric light or a buzzer. This led to the term "buzzing out a circuit" which means to test for continuity.

Audio Continuity tester

This level is basically a telescope with a spirit level mounted on top. It can be rotated 360°, but cannot be tilted up and down.It is used to check grades and elevations and to set up level points over long distances.

Automatic Optical Builder's Level

The standard blades of this saw are 8 to 14 inches long with 11 to 14 tpi. It has a broad, flat blade and a reinforced back edge. It is used for cutting joints

Backsaw

This hammer has a flat face for striking and a rounded face that is used to align brackets and drive out bolts.The flat face that is used to strike cold chisels and punches. the rounded end-the peen- is use to bend and shape soft metal.

Ball peen hammer

This clamp has a fixed jaw at one end and a sliding jaw tail slide with a spring-locking device that moves along the bar. Clamps should be discarded when the frame is bent.

Bar clamp

These vises are used to secure an object while you perform work on it.They have two sets of jaws one to hold flat work and another to hold round work, such as pipe.

Bench Vises

This vise has a yoke and base made of strong, dependable iron. Hardened alloy steel jaws and convenient pipe rest and bender included.

Bench Yoke Vises

This level telescope can be moved up and down 45°, making more operations possible than with the builder's level.Movement of the telescope in the up and down position also allows the level to be used to plumb columns,building corners,or any other vertical members.

Builders Transit level

This multipurpose clamp has a C-shaped frame. It is used primarily for clamping metalwork. The clamp has a metal shoe at the end or a screw.Using a T-bar, you tighten the clamp so that it holds material between the metal jaw of the frame and the shoe.

C- clamp

This is a L-shaped square used to mark or measure materials and check for uniformity and "square".

Carpenter's square or Framing square

This bar is a straight steel rod with a curved claw at one end. It is used to pull nails that have been driven flush with the surface of the wood or slightly below it. When pulling a nail, be sure the material holding the nail is braced securely before you pull.

Cat's paw nail bars

This vise has a rugged cast-iron base and a handy pipe rest and bender crank handle is anchored to base. Capacities of 1⁄8 inches (6 mm) through 8 inches(200 mm) and toothless jaws are neoprene-coated to prevent scoring of pipe.

Chain Vise with a tubing bender

This bar has two claws, one at either end,and is ground to a chisel- like bevel slant on both ends. You can use it like a claw hammer to pull nails. You can also drive it into wood to split and rip apart the pieces.

Chisel bar

This tester is simply a neon light bulb attached to two conductive leads. When one lead contacts a powered terminal or wire while the other lead touches a grounded conductor, the neon bulb will light.

Circuit tester

This is an meter tester that has two jaws which open to allow clamping around an electrical conductor. This allows properties of the electric current in the conductor to be measured, without having to make physical contact with it, or to disconnect it for insertion through the probe.

Clamp-on ammeter, current clamp or current probe meter tester

Carpenter's tool used to drive and pull nails.This hammer has a steel head and a handle made of wood, steel, and fiberglass.

Claw hammer or Bell faced hammer

This screwdriver has an hour-glass-shaped tip that is especially useful when you need extra holding power an in cars and appliances.

Clutch Drive screwdriver

These chisels are use to cut metal or shape. For instance, you can use it to cut rivets, nuts, and bolts made of brass, bronze, copper, or iron. Blade is beveled at a precise 60 degree angle so it will cut well.

Cold Chisels

This is a adjustable square consisting of a steel rule that slides through an adjustable head.

Combination square

These nonadjustable wrenches have two types of wrenches one of the ends of the wrench is open and the other is closed or box-end.

Combination wrenches

This saw cuts curves quickly in wood, plywood, or wallboard. It is also used to cut holes for large-diameter pipes, vents, and plugs or switch boxes.

Compass saw or keyhole saw

This saw has a narrow, flexible 6 3/4 inch blade attached to a U-shaped frame. Holders at each end of the frame can be rotated so you can cut at angles.This saw is used to cut curves in your work.

Coping saw

This file has single row of widely spaced teeth.

Curved-tooth file

These levels feature a simulated bubble display plus a digital readout of degrees of slope, inches per foot for rise and run of stairs and roofs,

Digital Electronic Levels

These measuring devices make it possible to measure parts that are being machined to one thousandth of an inch 0.001" accurately.

Digital Micrometer Devices

This meter tester display the measured value in numerals, and may also display a bar of a length proportional to the quantity being measured. These multimeters are now far more common but analog multimeters are still preferable in some cases, for example when monitoring a rapidly varying value.

Digital multimeters (DMM, DVOM) tester

This file has two sets of teeth crisscrossing each other.

Double-Cut File

This is a small backsaw with a straight handle. It is used for cutting fine work, especially dovetail joints.

Dovetail saw

This saw is a heavy gauge 6" blade with eight teeth per inch. Sharp point to penetrate wallboard easily without drilling. Cuts wallboard, masonite, plywood, and wood. Electricians use this saw to cutting holes for electrical outlet boxes,

Drywall or sheet rock saw

This is a prying tool bar with a nail slot at the end to pull nails out in tightly enclosed areas. it can also be used as a small pry bar. It is usually 2 inches wide and 15 inches long. When using prying tools be sure to keep balanced footing.

Flat bar

This is the most common type of standard screwdriver; A tool used to put in slotted screws. Screw drivers should never be used near live wires.

Flat or Slotted head screw driver

These pliers have serrated teeth that grip flat, square, round, or hexagonal objects.You can set the jaws in up to five positions by slipping the curved ridge into the desired groove.

Groove-Joint Pliers or Channel lock

This saw has a sturdy frame and a pistol-grip handle. The blade is tightened using a wing nut and bolt. It is used to cut through metal.

Hacksaw

This clamp has wooden jaws. It can spread pressure over a wider area than other clamps.

Hand- screw clamp

This is a crosscut saw or ripsaw the standard blade of this saw is 26 inches long with 7 to 12 tpi for a crosscut saw and 5 to 9 tpi for a ripsaw. To avoid being thrown off balance when sawing, brace yourself on the last stroke.

Handsaw

These wrenches are L-shaped hexagonal six-sided steel bars. Both ends fit the socket of a screw or bolt. The shorter length of the L-shape is called the head and the longer length is the handle it is bent to form a right angle.

Hex key or Allen wrench

This Measuring Tool can be considered a battery powered, electronic version of a tape measure. It works by pointing it at a specific object and then pressing a measurement button on the control panel.Most of these construction tools measure from 0.5 meters to 100 meters.

Laser Measuring Tool

The beam is all-but invisible to the human eye, although special glasses can be worn to make it more visible. However, this is of no consequence because rather than relying on sight, a leaser level uses a special detector which is attached to a standard graduated staff.

Laser beam

This is a hammer with a leather head, which is designed to protect the surface being struck.

Leather hammer

This level can be used to level a long span. It consists of a glass tube mounted in a sleeve that has a hook on either end. The hooks are attached at the center of a stretched line, which is moved up or down until the bubble is centered.

Line level

These pliers use to cut heavy or large-gauge wire and to hold work. The wedged jaws reduce the chance that wires will slip, and the hook bend in one handle gives you a better grip.

Lineman Pliers or Side Cutters Pliers

This clamp works like vise-grip pliers. A knob in the handle controls the width and tension of the jaws.

Locking Clamp

These pliers are used to get into tight places where other pliers won't reach or to grip parts that are too small to hold with your fingers. They are useful for bending angles in wire or narrow metal strips.

Long Nose pliers or Needle Nose pliers

This measuring rule is made of steel, cloth or woven fiberglass and are retrieved with a manual crank. It may be as long as 100' or 150 feet.

Long tape rule

This Chisel is ideal for cutting or shaping brick, cement block, cinder block, or trimming excess mortar. All chisels should be replaced or repaired if it is shaped like a mushroom

Mason's Chisel

This measuring tool can be a steel tape and are usually wound into metal cases. There is a hook at the end of the tape to hook over the object you are measuring.

Measuring tape

There are three types of this meter, hand, battery, and electric, it is a special type of ohmmeter used to measure the electrical resistance of insulators which can provide high DC voltages typically in ranges from 500 V to 2 kV at specified current capacity, are used.

Megohmmeter or meggger

This square has a blade fixed at 45 ͦ for laying out and marking lines such as for a miter cut. The opposite angle is fixed at 135 ͦ

Miter Square

This detector is used for a quick safety check to see if there is voltage or current flow present. Some of these devices are automatic and some must be turned on via a switch. Simply place the end of the tracer beside a wire, breaker or cord to see if it's energized

Non-contact Voltage Detector Pen

This is a nonadjustable wrench with an opening at each end that determines the size of the wrench.

Open-end wrench

This is the most common type of cross-head screwdriver; A tool used to put in cross-head screws.

Phillips head screwdriver

This clamp it has a fixed jaw and a movable jaw that work the same way as the bar clamp. The movable jaw has a lever mechanism that you squeeze when sliding the movable jaw along the spine.

Pipe Clamp

This adjustable wrench is used to tighten and loosen all types and sizes of threaded pipe.

Pipe or Monkey Wrench

These are used to indent metal before you drill a hole, to drive pins, and to align holes in two parts that are mates. They come in various sizes, three types are the center punch, the prick punch, and the straight punch.

Punches

This is a type of carpenter's square made of cast aluminum that combines a protractor,try square, and framing square.

Rafter angle or Speed square

This file the teeth are individually cut: they are not connected to each other.

Rasp-Cut File

This is a tester that plugs into an outlet receptacle and indicates the status of the polarity, ground, and sometimes the ground fault capability.

Receptacle tester

This screwdriver has a square drive that provides high torque power. Usually color coded according to size.

Robertson screwdriver

These Levels don't depend on the human eye. It emits a high-intensity light beam, which is detected by an target at distances up to 1,000'. It is operated in the sweep mode, the head rotates through 360° allowing the laser beam to sweep multiple sensors placed at different locations.

Rotating Laser levels and Laser detector

This file is used to cut fine amounts of material from a work piece and also known as a rat-tail file they are gradually tapered and are used for many tasks that require a round tool, such as enlarging round holes or cutting a scalloped edge.

Round file

This is a common hammer with a rubber head designed to protect the surface being struck.

Rubber hammer

This is a combination hammer with rubber and plastic heads designed to protect the surface being struck.

Rubber/plastic hammer

This file is single. straight-edged teeth running across at an angle.

Single-Cut File

This hammer is a heavy-duty tool used to drive post or other large stakes. You can also use it to break up cast iron or concrete.They are 1. Double face long handled 2. Double face short handled and 3. Crosspeen.

Sledgehammers

This square is an adjustable gauge for setting, testing, and transferring angles, such as when making a miter or bevel cut. The metal blade pivots and can be locked at any angle.

Sliding t-bevel square

You use these pliers to hold and bend wire and to grip and hold objects during assembly operations. They have adjustable jaws.

Slip Joint or combination pliers

This uses a higher amount of current to activate the tester's solenoid, which indicates the presence of voltage.

Solenoid voltage tester Wiggy®

These Spirit levels are used to determine if a surface is level or plumb. It has three vials filled with alcohol. They are two foot long.

Spirit Two- Foot Level

With this clamp you use your hand to open the spring-operated clamp.When you release the handles, the spring holds the clamp tightly shut, applying even pressure to the material.

Spring clamp

This adjustable wrench loosens and tightens fittings on drain traps, sink strainers, toilet connections, and large, odd-shaped nuts.

Spud wrench

These files are gradually tapered and cut on all four sides. Used for a wide variety of things.

Square file

This handy, portable stand vise has sturdy cast-iron frame. Also equipped with pipe rest, pipe bender and tool tray. It has pipe for legs and connecting pipe not furnished.Use 11⁄4 inches (32 mm) pipe for the front legs and the connecting piece and 1 inches (25 mm) pipe for the rear legs.

Stand Chain Vise

This is the simplest and most common measuring rule. It is usually 6 or 12 inches long but longer sizes are also available. They can be flexible or non flexible, and thin or wide.

Steel Rule

This is a light hammer that is used to drive tacks. One surface is magnetized to hold the tack.

Tack hammer

This is a Part of a file that is flat and fits into a wooden or plastic handle.

Tang look up pic

This level is utilized to ensure that a surface or angle is level or plumbed properly. It is a modern type of the spirit or bubble level, this level is also magnetic making it handy for hanging a picture to checking the alignment of joints during the construction of a wall or floor.

Torpedo level

This screwdriver has a star-shaped tip that is useful for replacing such parts as tailgate lenses;it is widely used in household appliances

Torx Screwdriver

This is a square whose legs are fixed at a right angle.

Try square

This meter tester is a combination of the milliammeter, the voltmeter, and the ohmmeter. This is electronic measuring instrument that combines several measurement functions in one unit. A typical tester would include basic features such as the ability to measure voltage, current, and resistance.

VOM Volt-Ohm meter or Volt-Ohm-milliammeter or multimeter tester

These pliers clamp firmly onto objects the way a vise does. A knob in the handle controls the width and tension of the jaws. You close the handles to lock the pliers. You release the pliers by pressing the lever to open the jaws.

Vise Grip®, Locking or Clamping Pliers

This level is a simple, accurate tool consisting of a length of clear plastic tubing. It works on the principle that water seeks its own level. An example is checking the level from one room to the next when a wall is in the way.

Water level

This clamp uses a belt like canvas or nylon strap or band to apply even pressure around a piece of material. After looping the band around the work, you use the clamp head to secure the band. You use a ratchet to tighten it.

Web Clamp

You use this chisel to make openings or notches in wooden material. But all chisels are metal tools that have sharpened beveled edges and are used to cut and shape wood, stone, or metal.

Wood Chisel

A set of tools used to shape wood projects.

Wood carving tools

This measuring rule usually marked in sixteenths of an inch on both edges of each side. This rule comes in 6 and 8 foot lengths.Because of the stiffness this rule is better than a cloth or steel tape for measuring.

Wooden folding rule

This nonadjustable wrench forms a continuous circle around the head of a fastener or bolt . The ends have six or twelve points. The ends come in different sizes, ranging from 3/8 inch to 1 5/16 inches.

box-end wrench

Use this file to file down different types of soft metals, hard metals, plastics, and wood. Make sure to use a handle.

flat file

Perfectly vertical; the surface is at a right angle (90 degrees) to the horizon or floor and does not bow out at the top or bottom.

plumb

Teeth on the gripping part of a wrench. Also refers to the number of teeth per inch on a handsaw.

points

To smooth out threads or edges on a screw or nut. This is caused by using an improper wrench or a pair of pliers instead of the proper tool.

round off look up

A non adjustable wrench with an enclosed, circular opening designed to lock on to the fastener when the wrench is struck with a hammer.

striking wrench

To damage the threads on a nut or bolt.

strip look up

A piece that projects out of wood or another material for the purpose of being placed into a hole or groove to form a joint

tenon

To heat or fuse two or more pieces of metal so that the finished piece is a strong as the original; a welded joint.

weld look up