—To work metals you will need certain tools according to the kind of work you intend to do. If you get all of those I have listed below you will have nearly all the hand tools you need to do any kind of a job that may come up. The following list is quite a full one and a kit which includes all of them will cost in the neighborhood of fifteen dollars. You don’t need to buy all of them at once, however, but just get a tool at a time as you must have it until your kit is complete.
The Various Kinds of Tools.
—Metal working tools are tempered harder than wood working tools and are made of what is known as tool-steel.
For your kit of machinists’ tools get (1) a ball pein hammer which weighs about 8 ounces—this is a regular machinists’ hammer; (2) a pair of 4 inch side cutting pliers; (3) a pair of 8 inch tinners’ snips which makes a 2 inch cut; (4) a jeweler’s adjustable saw frame; (5) a hack saw frame to hold an 8 inch saw blade; (6) a hand drill stock with a chuck for holding round shank drills from 0 to ³⁄₁₆ inch in diameter.
(7) Four Morse twist drills ¹⁄₁₆, ³⁄₃₂, ¹⁄₈ and ³⁄₁₆ inch in diameter; (8) a 6 inch steel rule, graduated into 8ths, 16ths, 32nds and 64ths of an inch; (9) a machinist’s steel square with a 2¹⁄₂ inch blade; (10) a pair of 3 inch spring dividers; (11) a pair of 3 inch inside spring calipers; (12) a pair of 3 inch outside calipers; (13) a center punch; (14) a No. 1 set of screw cutting taps and dies, this set contains a stock or handle and five taps and five dies which cut ⁷⁄₆₄, ⁹⁄₆₄, ⁵⁄₃₂, ³⁄₁₆, and ⁷⁄₃₂ inch in diameter.
(15) A few files—flat, hand, round and half-round in shape and the smooth and second cut will be the most useful; (16) several screw drivers, small and large; (17) a soldering copper that weighs about ¹⁄₂ a pound; (18) a can of soldering paste, or you can make a soldering fluid yourself, and (19) an alcohol lamp, which I told you how to make in the [last chapter], or a Bunsen burner if you have a supply of gas, and (20) a machinist’s vise. All of these tools are shown in [Figs. 27] and [28].
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| TINNER’S SNIPS | SOLDERING COPPER AND ALCOHOL LAMP | ||||
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| FLAT NOSE SIDE CUTTING PLIERS | FLAT NOSE PLIERS | ROUND NOSE PLIERS | |||
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| A BENCH LEVEL | A WIRE GUAGE | ||||
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| A ROSE COUNTERSINK | |||||
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| A TAPER REAMER | OIL CAN AND OIL STONE | ||||
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| SET OF SCREW CUTTING TAPS AND DIES | MACHINIST’S VISE | ||||
Fig. 27. the chief metal working tools
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| JEWELLER’S HAMMER | |||||
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| BALL PEIN HAMMER | HAND DRILL STOCK AND DRILL | ||||
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| SPRING DIVIDERS | SPRING CALIPERS OUTSIDE | SPRING CALIPERS INSIDE | |||
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| JEWELLER’S ADJUSTABLE SAW FRAME | HACK SAW | ||||
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| 6″ STEEL RULE | MACHINIST’S STEEL SQUARE | ||||
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| CENTER PUNCH | |||||
 | 1—SHELL SQUARE TAPER 2—ROUND OR RAT TAIL 3—HAND OR FLAT KINDS OF FILES | ||||
| COLD CHISEL | |||||
Fig. 28. some other metal working tools