Appendix B: Tools and Equipment

Safety equipement

  • 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