Remember the last time your neighbor came over for a drink and you playfully locked him in your bathroom? God, you thought that was such a fun thing to do then, until you discovered that the bathroom door jammed and your vicious Pit bull terrier (who intensely hated your neighbor) was sleeping in the bathroom! Didn't you wish that you'd have had an emergency DIY toolkit for times like these? ...
Tools are important. In order to complete a construction project or a home-improvement project you need to have all the necessary tools. These tools can come in various sizes it can be big or it can be small. However, regardless of the size, these tools will help you finish your project. When it comes to adding final touches to a project, there are certain tools that you must possess. One of these...
The basic home repair tool kit has changed over the years. When I was a boy, I do not remember seeing any power tools in father's vast array of carpenters' tools. The brace-and-bit and folding wooden rule have gone these days. Nowadays, everything needs to be plugged in or recharged. Not a bad thing at all, but not being a carpenter, like my father before me and his before him. I wonder how...
A hand saw is one of the standard tools used by handyman services. These are useful because they take advantage of the thickness of the blade in order to keep the material being cut still. Generally, handheld saws are used to cut plywood, but there are some that are used for cutting tougher material as well. Hacksaws for example are used to cut metal and feature much stronger blades than typical h...
The techniques and equipment you need to cut water pipes definitely depend on the piping material itself. Several men and women cut copper and galvanized steel pipes with the hacksaw but a tubing cutter is a different excellent alternative. Tubing cutters leave a far more uniform edge to every single cut and you can also cut plastic pipe with a tubing cutter. Most do-it-yourselfers reach for a hac...
Did you know that the hammer is the oldest human tool? Gosh, imagine the Neanderthal man with a hammer in hand trying to make some music by banging that beautiful hammer on those mineral-rich rocks!! Anyway, Wikipedia defines the hammer as "a tool meant to deliver blows to a target, causing it to move or deform." Though the hammer may seem ordinary, every homeowner needs it at some time or ...
A spanner or sometimes called a wrench, is the most common tool used for gripping, fastening and loosening nuts and bolts. The spanners that have adjustable jaws are referred to as adjustable wrenches (or in the USA crescents). Most good quality spanners and wrenches are drop forged and chrome plated. They are forged from high quality steel such as chromium-vanadium. This is then hardened and temp...
Hacksaw, Handles & Blades Hacksaws are one of the most common hand tools. Nearly everyone owns one, and if you don't have one, you need to buy one. Hacksaws are inexpensive and very economical to use. But most of you never use it because the one time you tried to use it things didn't go well. You broke the hacksaw blade, the blade kept falling out of the handle, or it kept getting stuck...
Next time you look at a hammer, just think, it is the tool that first differentiated between humans and animals. Hammers were the very first tools humans shaped and used, and not even the most intelligent species of ape has managed to achieve that. Even in today's world, if you need to provide a sharp impact from your arm to an object, then there is no better tool than a hammer. Anat...
Regardless of the type, virtually all hammers are similar in construction. This simple tool consists of a handle and head, and depending on the type of handle, one or more wedges to keep the head secured. Wood handles typically have three wedges: one wood and two metals. The wood wedge spreads the sides of the tenon to grip the head, and the metal wedges help distribute the pressure evenly. FORGE ...
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