Appendix B – Tools and Equipment

Safety Equipment

  • automated external defibrillator (AED)
  • dust mask
  • eye wash station
  • face shield
  • fall arrest equipment
  • fire blanket
  • fire extinguishers
  • fire hoses
  • first aid station
  • goggles/safety glasses
  • hand protection
  • hearing protection
  • heat treatment oven mitts/gloves
  • portable gas detector
  • protective head gear
  • respirators
  • safety barrier tapes
  • safety boots
  • lock-out and tag-out devices

Hand Tools

  • oxy-fuel torch 
  • arbor press 
  • bearing extractor 
  • brushes 
  • buffing wheels 
  • chisels (flat cold, diamond, round nose, cape, side) 
  • chuck key 
  • deburrers 
  • die stock 
  • dressing stick
  • drill drift 
  • drill gauge 
  • file cards 
  • file handles 
  • files (flat file, half round file, hand file, knife file, general purpose file, pillar file, round file, square file, three square file, lathe file) 
  • grease guns 
  • hacksaws and blades 
  • hammers/mallets (ball peen, dead blow, sledge, cross peen, straight peen)
  • hand broaches
  • hand reamers (solid, expansion, adjustable, taper, roughing, finishing taper) 
  • hex keys
  • honing stones 
  • lapping plate 
  • metal stamps 
  • oil cans/guns 
  • pliers (standard, tongue and groove, needle nose, locking, side cutters)
  • punches and bars (pin punch, prick punch, centre punch, aligning punch, pry bar, transfer punch, brass drifts)
  • scrapers (flat, three cornered) 
  • screwdrivers (straight or flat, Phillips, Robertson, Torx) 
  • soft jaws 
  • spotting blue (Prussian blue)
  • tap extractors 
  • tap wrenches 
  • tin snips
  • torch tip lighters 
  • utility knife
  • vises (bench, machinist’s) 
  • wheel dressers (hand held) 
  • wrenches (open-end, box end, sockets, adjustable, hex socket, torque, pipe, chain, strap, spanner)

Power Tools

  • air grinder 
  • belt sander
  • angle grinder 
  • bench grinder
  • buffing tools
  • cold saw
  • die grinder
  • disk grinder
  • line boring equipment
  • magnetic drill press
  • nibbler
  • portable band saw
  • portable drill 
  • portable key seat cutter
  • abrasive blast cabinet
  • orbital sander
  • vibrating drum sander
  • high temperature oven
  • hydraulic press 
  • parts cleaner

Machine-Tools

  • abrasive cut-off saw
  • boring machines
  • computer numerical control (CNC) machines (drilling machines, turning centres, machining centres (horizontal and vertical), grinding machines)
  • conventional drilling machines (sensitive drill press, multi-spindle head, radial arm drilling machine, turret drilling machine, pedestal drill)
  • conventional grinders (cylindrical, surface, tool and cutter, centreless, pedestal)
  • conventional lathes (turret, engine/centre, single and multi spindle)
  • conventional milling machines (vertical, horizontal, universal)
  • power saws (band saw (horizontal and vertical), power hacksaw, reciprocating saw)

Cutting Tools

  • abrasive cut off wheels 
  • boring bars
  • broaches 
  • carbides (cemented, inserts, solid, coated) 
  • counterbores (with or without changeable pilots) 
  • dies 
  • drills 
  • grinding wheels (aluminum oxide, silicon carbide, boron carbide, cubic boron nitride, diamond) 
  • knurling tools (straight, diamond) 
  • lathe (left and right hand, neutral, parting and grooving, forming and threading)
  • milling cutters (HSS, carbide, indexable carbide, dovetail, woodruff, side and face, slab, chamfer, fly, form, end mill, t-slot)
  • reamers (machine, hand, spiral flute, straight flute, expandable, rose, taper) 
  • taps 
  • boring heads 

Layout Equipment

  • combination set
  • dividers and trammels 
  • etchers 
  • layout fluid 
  • layout table 
  • punches (centre, prick, transfer) 
  • scribers 
  • squares (adjustable, solid, master) 
  • surface gauge 
  • surface plates 
  • transfer screws
  • height gauges

Measuring Tools

  • angle gauge blocks 
  • angle plate 
  • bore gauge 
  • combination square 
  • coordinate measuring machine (CMM
  • depth gauge 
  • dial indicators 
  • digital readout 
  • dividers 
  • drill gauge 
  • electronic measuring devices 
  • feeler gauge 
  • gauge blocks
  • gear measuring wire 
  • gear tooth caliper
  • height gauge 
  • inside calipers 
  • inspection gauges (fixed gauges, cylindrical plug gauges, plain ring gauges, taper plug gauges, taper ring gauges, thread ring gauges, snap gauges, drill size gauges, radius gauges, go/no-go gauges, pitch gauges)
  • laser
  • measuring rods 
  • measuring tape 
  • micrometer (thread, inside, outside, depth)
  • optical comparator
  • outside calipers 
  • precision level 
  • profilometer 
  • protractor (universal, bevel, vernier) 
  • radius gauge 
  • refractometer
  • scale (steel, rule, hook rule) 
  • sine bar (compound) 
  • sine plate (compound) 
  • small hole gauge 
  • square (solid, adjustable, cylindrical) 
  • surface finish comparator 
  • surface roughness tester
  • surface plate 
  • telescopic gauge
  • thread depth gauge 
  • thread measuring wires
  • transfer caliper 
  • transfer type instruments 
  • caliper (dial, digital, vernier) 

Setup Accessories and Work Holding Devices

  • adaptors 
  • angle plates 
  • arbors 
  • centre and edge finders 
  • centres (dead, half, rotating, spring) 
  • chain hoists
  • chucks (three-jaw, four-jaw, magnetic, collet, flat back, vacuum) 
  • clamps 
  • collets 
  • tombstones
  • dividing head 
  • drill chuck 
  • face plates 
  • follower/travelling rest 
  • grinding attachment 
  • grinding wheel balancers 
  • lathe dogs 
  • machine vise 
  • mandrels 
  • overhead crane 
  • parallels
  • quick change toolpost 
  • rotary table 
  • screw jacks
  • shim stock 
  • slings
  • spacers 
  • steady rest 
  • taper sleeves 
  • taper turning attachment 
  • tapping head 
  • tool holders 
  • turret tool post 
  • v-blocks
  • vise
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