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Metalwork Tools
- Centre Punch
Used for marking work of all descriptions, also for dotting the place where holes have to be drilled for the centre of the drill to start in.
- Scratch awls or Scribers:
They are used to scribe or mark lines on a metal surface of a variety of purposes in laying out patterns. T
- A Flatter
Used for bringing work to a smooth flat surface
- Soldering Iron ,
Also sometimes called a copper bit. Used for all kinds of soft soldering.
- Rivet Tongs
Used for holding rivets or small round iron at right angles to tongs. Sometimes called ring tongs.
- Hack Saw;
Used only for cutting metals,.
Outside Calipers
Used for measuring the outside diameters of bodies and for transferring sizes from the rule to articles in the round, or vice versa..,
- Rivet Tongs
Used for holding rivets or small round iron at right angles to tongs
- Tinman’s Gas Stove
Used by a tinman when soft soldering, so that one iron can be getting hot while the other is being used. Stove made of cast iron.
- Chisels :
The cold chisel is used to cut or shear metal. It is made from a piece of high carbon or alloy steel of hexagonal or octagonal in shape. There are many different types of chisels, but the flat chisel is mostly used for cutting sheet metal, rivets, bolts and in chipping operations.
- Snips :
The snips are somewhat similar to a pair of scissors but are considerably heavier. There are several types of snips available for making straight or circular cuts, but the most common are the straight snips and the curved snips.
- Hammers
The hammers, in sheetmetal work, are used for forming shapes by hollowing, raising stretching or throwing off processes.
- Pliers
Are used in sheet metal work for holding, cutting and bending work.
- Bench Stakes
are steel anvils used to perform operations like bending, seaming or forming on sheet metal, when suitable machines are not available.
- Steel square :
It is L-shaped piece of hardened steel with graduation marks on the edges for measuring. The narrow arm of the square is called the tongue and the wide part is known as the body