Are tools manipulated

by our hands without

the use of
electrical energy.
Ans.Hand tools
Are tools which are
operated and
manipulated by our
hands with the use of
electric energy
Ans. Machine tools
Are made out of tool
steel hardened and
tempered at the tip
Ans. Screwdrivers
The blade tip is formed
into wedge to fit with
slotted head screws.
The handle may be
either be wood or
plastic.
Ans. Standard screw
drivers
The tip is similarly
shaped with standard
screw driver but short
shank or blade and also
shorter handle which is
made of plastic.
Ans. Stubb screw
driver
The blade is recessed
to fit with the
recessed head
screws.the handle mat
be either be wood or
plastic.
Ans. Phillips screw
driver
To drive or loosen
screws in tight places
.especially used on cars
and machine.
Ans. Offset screw
driver
Used for cutting and
twisting wires and to
grip small parts.it
should not be used for
tightening or loosening
nuts and bolts.
Because the serrations
of the jaws round off
the corners of the bolt
head and nut causing a
wrench to slip there
after.
Ans. Pliers
 Used for cutting wire
and holding flat and
round stock.
Ans. Slip joint or
combination plier
(mechanical plier)
Manufactured for
light, medium, and
heavy duty work for
cutting electrical wire
an small nails.
Ans. Side cutting plier
(lineman’s plier)
Used for cutting and
holding fine wires; it
can reachinto tight
space. Commonly used
by electricians to make
terminal loops in
copper wire.
Ans. Long nose plier
Used for cutting
medium or fine wires.
Used for bending small
pieces of soft metal.
Ans. Diagonal plier
Used to install
retaining rings which
are type of fastener
used in assembling
parts.
Ans. Retaining ring
plier
Commonly used in
sheet metal work to
bend square edges.
Ans. Flat nose plier.
Special tool used for
removing insulation of
medium sized wires and
can remove the
insulation of rubber
covered wires varying
from gauge no 26 to
gauge no.10
Ans. Wire stripper
Used by linemen to
remove the insulation
of ig cables in high and
low voltage
transmission lines
Ans. Electricians knife
Used In sizing
conductors.
Ans. Wire gage
The brown and sharpe
gage (b&s) and lately
called_____ that can
measure from gauge no
0to gauge no 36.
Ans. American wire
gage (A.W.G)
Used to removed the
diameter of circular
wires in mills. It can
measure small and
large sizes of wires.

Ans. Micrometer
Classified as either as
soft or hard faces.
Ans. Hammer
Used to drive or to pull
out the nails in the
piece of wood.
Ans. Claw hammer
Used to flatten
surfaces of metal to
straighten metal and
for riveting metals.
Ans. Bal peen hammer
Used for rewinding
jobs like forming coils
assembly and dis
assembly of motors.
Ans. Soft faced
hammer
Used to turn nuts or
hold the piece of stock
when tightening screws
nuts and bolts

Ans. Wrenches
It has a fixed straight
jaw and movable
straight jaw which can
be adjusted to hold or
tighten bolt which
cannot be done with
other kind of wrenches
Ans. Monkey wrench
 It has a handy and
quickly be adjusted for
size to grip or grasp
piece of stock.
Ans. Adjustable end
wrench.
It is similar to the
adjustable end wrench
only they differ in
shape. It has a knurled
knob at the head.
Ans. Adjustable s
wrench
A special wrench
which can be locked on
to an object and will
grip it with great
pressure at the end of
the handle.
Ans. Vise grip wrench
 They re designed foe
tightening and
loosening pipes as well
as for holding round
object.

Ans. Pipe wrench

This is handy wrench
but it is not
dependable as box
wrench.
Ans. Open end wrench.
 Very convenient to
use , in most instances
it is faster to turn or
remove the object
other than compared
to other wrenches.
Ans. Socket wrench
It is an excellent tool
as it grips the nuts on
all sides . this reduces
the chances of slipping
with resultant to
damage to the nut and
possibly the hand.
Ans. Box wrench
The end tip is shaped
hexagonally to fit the
same shape of the
screws mto be
tightened or loosened.
Ans.Allen wrench
Use for pulling gears
bearings bushings on
the shaft of the motor
or generator.
Ans. Puller
Used for making metal
parts so that they can
be correctly re
assembled as well as
foe marking an
centering on the metal
part to bore holes.
Ans. Centre punch
Used to cut thin metal
as well as to remove
little projections of
metal (burrs) on
smoothen metal
surfaces.
Used for cutting small
ang medium sized
metals .
Ans. Hacksaw
Used for boring holes
on small and medium
sized metals.
Ans.hand drill and bit
Carpenters tool use
dfor boring holes on
building wood jobs joist
and studs foe
conduction to pass
through.
Ans. Auger brace and
bit
A small tool with a
tapered drill point
used to make a pilot
hole for wood screw
mounting.
Ans. Gimlet
 A thin bladed saw
used to cut rectangular
or square holes in walls
for installations of
flash mounted
convenience outlet.
Ans. Key hole saw
 Atwist drill with a flat
carbide tip.shape like a
star.
Ans. Atar drill
A twist with flat
carbide tip and is used
to drill ho;es and
bright sizes are given
in the diameter of a
drill point
Ans. Mason drill
Manufactured in many
sizes . used for
clamping and holding
parts together while
they are being
assembled.
Ans. C clamp
Used to spread or
flare out the end of a
tube before tube
fitting.

Ans. Flaring tool

Used to cut small sizes
of pipe. It has three
small round cutters
made of hardened
steel.
Ans. Pipe cutter
Used to cut away rough
edges or burs inside
the end of a pipe after
it has been cut by a
pipe cutter.
Ans. Pipe burring
reamer
It is sometimes called
soldering iron. It is
made up of square
piece of copper
pointed at one end and
fastened into steel bar
with a wooden handle
on the other end.
Ans. Soldering copper
It utilizes electricity
to heat the copper tip.
Use to solder joints
and terminal
connections.
Ans. Electric soldering
copper
The contour shape of
this tool is similar to a
hand gun with hard
copper wire as a
soldering tip.