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Woodworking vises are attached to a workbench, typically flush with

its work surface. Their jaws are made of wood or metal, the latter
usually faced with wood, called cheeks, to avoid marring the work.The
movable jaw may include a retractable dog to hold work against
a bench dog.

An engineer's vise, also known as a metalworking vise or machinist's


vise, is used to clamp metal instead of wood. It is used to hold metal
when filing or cutting. It is sometimes made of cast steel or malleable
cast iron, but most are made of cast iron. However, most heavy duty
vises are 55,000 psi cast steel or 65,000 psi ductile iron. Some vises
have a cast iron body but a steel channel bar. Cast iron is popular
because it is typically 30,000 psi grey iron which is rigid, strong and
inexpensive. The jaws are often separate and replaceable, usually
engraved with serrated or diamond teeth. Soft jaw covers made
of aluminum, copper, wood (for woodworking) or plastic may be used
to protect delicate work. The jaw opening of an engineer's vise is
almost always the same size as the jaw width, if not bigger.

Machine vises are mounted on drill


presses, grinding ma chines and milling machines. Abrasive
chop saws have a special type of machine vise built into the
saw. Some hobbyists use a machine vise as a bench vise
because of the low cost and small size.

Pipe vises are a plumber's tool, often used to hold pipes in place for threading
and cutting. There are two main styles: chain and yoke. The yoke type vise uses
a screw to clamp down the pipe, and the chain style uses a chain for securing
the pipe.

Clamp-on vises are basically very light-duty bench vises. They


usually have smooth jaws for wood, plastic and light
metalworking, but some have serrated jaws for getting a
better grip on metal. Some unique vises combine these
features in a rotating design. They also help to secure an object
while working on the object.
The basic tools in Engineering shop
A hammer is a tool consisting of a weighted "head" fixed to a long handle
that is swung to deliver an impact to a small area of an object. This can be,
for example, to drive nails into wood, to shape metal (as with a forge), or to
crush rock. Hammers are used for a wide range of driving, shaping, and
breaking applications.

A saw is a tool consisting of a tough blade, wire,


or chain w ith a hard toothed edge. It is used to cut
through m aterial, very often woodthough sometimes
metal or stone.

A hacksaw is a fine-toothed saw, originally and mainly made for


cutting metal. The equivalent saw for cutting wood is usually
called bow saw.

A spirit level, bubble level or simply a level is


an instrument designed to indicate whether a surface
is horizontal (level) or vertical (plumb). Different types of spirit
levels may be used by carpenters, stonemasons, bricklayers,
other building trades workers, surveyors, millwrights and other
metalworkers, and in some photographic or videographic work.

A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered,


for screwing (installing) and unscrewing
(removing) screws. A typical simple screwdriver has a handle and a shaft,
ending in a tip the user puts into the
screw head before turning the
handle. 

A wrench or spanner is a tool used to provide grip and


mechanical advantage in applying torque to turn objects
—usually rotary fasteners, such as nuts and bolts—or keep
them from turning.
A chisel is a tool with a characteristically shaped cutting edge (such that
wood chisels have lent part of their name to a particular grind) of blade on
its end, for carving or cutting a hard material such as wood, stone, or metal
by hand, struck with a mallet, or mechanical power.

A wire stripper is a small, hand-held device used to strip the electrical


insulation from electric wires.

A drill is a tool primarily used for making round holes or driving


fasteners. It is fitted with a bit, either a drill or driver, depending on application,
secured by a chuck. Some powered drills also include a hammer function.

Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed


from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe.[1] They are
also useful for bending and compressing a wide range of materials.
Generally, pliers consist of a pair of metal first-class levers joined at
a fulcrum positioned closer to one end of the levers, creating short jaws on
one side of the fulcrum, and longer handles on the other side.

A toolbox (al so called toolkit, tool chest or workbox) is a box to


organize, carry, and protect the owner's tools. They could be used for
trade, a hobby or DIY, and their contents vary with the craft of the
owner.
A hand drill is a manual tool that converts and amplifies
circular motion of the crank into circular motion of a drill chuck.
Though it has been replaced in most applications by power
drills, the hand drill is used by many woodworkers

Drill bits are cutting tools used to remove material to create holes,


almost always of circular cross-section. Drill bits come in many sizes
and shapes and can create different kinds of holes in many different
materials. In order to create holes drill bits are usually attached to
a drill, which powers them to cut through the workpiece, typically by
rotation. The drill will grasp the upper end of a bit called the shank in
the chuck.

A circular saw is a power-saw using a toothed


or abrasive disc or bl ade to cut different materials using a
rotary motion spinning around an arbor. A hole
saw and ring saw also use a rotary motion but are
different from a circular saw. Circular saws may also be
loosely used for the blade itself.

A sander is a power tool used to smooth surfaces


by abrasion with sandpaper. Sanders have a means to attach the
sandpaper and a mechanism to move it rapidly contained within a
housing with means to hand-hold it or fix it to a
workbench. Woodworking sanders are usually powered electrically, and
those used in auto-body repair work by compressed air.

A wire is a single, usually cylindrical, flexible strand or rod of metal.


Wires are used to bear
mechanical loads or el ectricity and telecommunications signals. 
In woodworking and construction, a nail is a small object made of metal (or wood, called a tree
nail or "trunnel") which is used as a fastener, as a peg to hang something, or sometimes as a
decoration.[1] Generally, nails have a sharp point on one end and a flattened head on the other, but
headless nails are available.

A washer is a thin plate (typically disk-shaped, but sometimes square) with a


hole (typically in the middle) that is normally used to distribute the load of
a threaded fastener, such as a bolt or nut. Other uses are as a spacer, spring
(Belleville washer, wave washer), wear pad, preload indicating device, locking
device, and to reduce vibration (rubber washer). 

A nut is a type of fastener with a threaded hole. Nuts are


almost always used in conjunction with a mating bolt to fasten
multiple parts together. The two partners are kept together by a
combination of their threads' friction (with slight elastic
deformation), a slight stretching of the bolt,
and co mpression of the parts to be held together.

Wood screw-A screw designed for a wood or a similar material, with a point, a relatively
coarse thread, a thick shank, and, usually, an unthreaded portion of the shank at the head
end.

ASME standards specify a variety of "Machine Screws"[13] in diameters


ranging up to 0.75 in (19.05 mm). These fasteners are often used with
nuts but also often driven into tapped holes (without nuts). They might be
considered a screw or a bolt based on the Machinery's
Handbook distinction. In practice, they tend to be mostly available in
smaller sizes and the smaller sizes are referred to as screws or less
ambiguously as machine screws, although some kinds of machine screw
can be referred to as stove bolts

A hex head cap screw is a six-sided bolt with a trimmed hex head and a washer face on the
bearing surface. ... Hex cap screws are commonly used in OEM applications where precise
tolerances are needed.
A bolt is a form of threaded fastener with an external male thread. Bolts are closely related
to screws. Bolts are often used to make a bolted joint. 

A pipe wrench is any of several types of wrench that are designed to turn threaded


pipe and pipe fittings for assembly (tightening) or disassembly (loosening). The Stillson
wrench, or Stillson-pattern wrench, is the usual form of pipe wrench, especially in
North America. The Stillson name is that of the original patent holder, who licensed the
design to a number of manufacturers. The patent expired decades ago. Another type of
wrench often used on pipes, the plumber wrench, is also called a pipe wrench in some
places.

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