An Introduction to Hand Tools

As their name suggests, hand tools are essentially devices that enable the user to work on a material or a physical system using only his hands. Hand tools can be used manually by employing mechanical force or electrically by using electrical current.

Hand tools can be classified into several broad categories according to the function they perform. Let us take a look at some of the chief classifications and examples of each below:

- Driving and chopping tools, which include hammers, mauls, sledges, screwdrivers and bits and chopping tools.

- Cutting and smoothing tools, which include saws, chisels, planes, files and rasps and brush-cutting tools.

- Drilling, boring and countersinking tools

- Measuring, leveling, layout and marking tools like rules, tapes, plumb bobs, and squares

- Gripping, prying and twisting tools such as pliers, wrenches and bars

- Holding, raising and grinding tools like vises, clamps, jacks, grinders and oilstones

- Digging tools including shovels, posthole diggers, picks and mattocks

- Pipe wrenches

- Pocket HoleJig

- Specialty tools like automotive rescue tools, needle files, glass magnifiers, grommets and fasteners, hooks, probes, positioning, inspection and retrieval tools, magnets and punches  Read more...

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