Appendix A – Tools and Equipment

Safety Equipment

  • dust mask
  • eye wash station
  • fire blanket
  • fire extinguishers
  • fire hoses
  • first aid station
  • goggles/safety glasses/face shield
  • hand protection
  • hearing protectors
  • protective clothing
  • protective head gear
  • respirators
  • safety barrier tapes
  • safety boots

Hand Tools

  • abrasive stones
  • Allen keys
  • bearing extractor
  • brushes
  • chisels
  • chuck key
  • clamp
  • deburrers
  • dressing stick
  • drill drift
  • drill gauge
  • file cards
  • file handles
  • files
  • grease guns
  • hacksaws and blades
  • hammers/mallets
  • hand reamers
  • honing stones
  • lapping plate
  • layout dye
  • loupe eyeglass
  • magnifying screens and glasses
  • metal stamps
  • oil cans/guns
  • pliers
  • punches and bars
  • rasps
  • scrapers
  • screwdrivers
  • soft jaws
  • spotting blue
  • tap extractors
  • tap wrenches
  • temperature sticks
  • tin snips
  • torch tip lighters
  • wheel dressers (hand held)
  • wrenches

Power Tools

  • air grinder
  • bench grinder
  • die grinder
  • disc grinder
  • drill press
  • portable drill
  • power saws

Machine Tools

  • abrasive cut-off saw
  • band saw
  • computer numerical control (CNC)
  • die spotting press
  • drilling machines
  • Electrical Discharge Machine (EDM)
  • grinders (surface, cylindrical and tool cutter)
  • hydraulic/mechanical press
  • jig borer
  • lathe
  • machine tools
  • milling machines

Cutting Tools

  • abrasive wheels
  • boring bars
  • boring heads
  • broaches
  • counterbore
  • countersink
  • drill bits
  • EDM electrodes
  • grinding wheels
  • knurling tools
  • milling cutters
  • parting-off tools
  • reamers
  • saw blades
  • spot facers
  • taps and die
  • turning tools

Layout Equipment

  • combination set
  • dividers and trammels
  • etchers
  • hermaphrodite calipers
  • layout dye
  • layout table
  • punches
  • scribers
  • squares
  • surface gauges
  • surface plates / surface tables
  • vernier height gauge

Measuring and Testing Tools

  • angle gauge blocks
  • angle plate
  • bore gauge
  • calipers
  • combination square
  • coordinate measuring machine (CMM)
  • deflection tester
  • depth gauge
  • dial indicators
  • die maker square
  • electronic measuring devices
  • feeler gauge
  • gauge blocks
  • hardness tester
  • height micrometer
  • measuring rods
  • measuring tape
  • micrometers
  • non-destructive testing equipment
  • optical comparator (shadow graph)
  • optical flats
  • precision blocks
  • precision level
  • protractor
  • radius gauge
  • refractometer

Measuring and Testing Tools (continued)

  • sine bar (compound)
  • sine plate (compound)
  • small hole gauge
  • squares
  • steel rules
  • surface finish comparator
  • surface plate
  • telescopic gauge
  • temperature block
  • tensile strength tester
  • thread gauge
  • thread measuring wires
  • tooling ball
  • trammel
  • vernier caliper
  • vernier height gauge
  • vernier protractor

Heat Treating Equipment

  • furnaces
  • ladles
  • quenching mediums
  • stainless steel wrap
  • tongs
  • torches

Accessories and Work Holding Devices

  • adaptors
  • angle plates
  • arbour press
  • arbours
  • centre and edge finders
  • centres
  • chucks
  • clamps
  • collets
  • crane
  • degreasing tanks
  • die light
  • dividing head
  • drill chuck
  • drive dogs
  • drive plate
  • faceplates
  • follower/travelling rest
  • forklift
  • grinding attachment
  • grinding wheel balancers
  • grinding wheel dressers
  • hoists
  • indexing heads
  • jacks
  • laptop or personal computer (PC)
  • lathe centres
  • lathe dogs
  • machine vise
  • mandrels
  • parallels
  • precision stops
  • quick change toolpost
  • rotary grinding attachments
  • rotary table
  • shim stock
  • slings
  • spacers
  • steady rest
  • tail stock
  • taper sleeves
  • taper turning attachment
  • tapping head
  • tool holders
  • trip dogs
  • turret toolpost
  • V-block
  • vises
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