Dear friends:

I had never have experience with all kinds of labor tools before getting hooked on MB cars. English is also my ESL, so I'm kind of confused of the names and functions/purposes of these tools. Please give me some ideas of what a listed tool does. The ones marked with an asterisk are what I have a pretty clear understanding of what it is and what it does, but please also give them some description if you want.

1) Polisher*:

2) Buffer (what's it different from polisher?)

3) Sander*:

4) Angle Grinder*:

5) Die Grinder

6) Bench Grinder

7) Router

8) Plunge Router

9) Dremel tool (Is it a brand-name die grinder?):

10) Chuck Key Eliminator

11) Flaring tool

12) Planer

13) Wood Lathe

14) Rotary tool

Please add any more tools that were not listed here.

Thank you very much.

Best regards,

Eric

Eric,

Tool names may be confusing, such as a bench grinder is not used to grind benches and a chain saw is not used to saw chains.

A bench grinder is uaually a two wheel grinder mounted on a work bench. It is used to sharpen tools, grind shapes into metal, ETC. If it was mounted on a stand it would be called a pedistal grinder.

An angle grinder is a hand held grinding tool with the wheel 90 degrees to the armature o f the motor. Its made that way because it is easier to use. Its usually used to grind off a weld bead to make the weld smooth.

Flaring tool is used to expand the end of a metal pipe so it can be used in a fitting so it doesnt leak. Usually the ends of brake lines are flared and may be double flared to be extra leakproof.

Dremel Tool is a brand name for a small hand held light duty grinder used with tiny grinding wheels.

Planer is usually a wood working tool that has a rotating cutter that removes a set amount of wood from one side of the length of a board.

A Woodlathe is a larger tool that a piece of wood is attached to and the lathe spins the wood for cutting with hand held tools held against a tool rest. The wood can be a long piece which might be made into a table leg or short and thick which might be made into a bowl.

A router is a wood working tool that cuts out the surface of a flat piece of wood or can be used to bevel the edges. Different shaped cutters are used for different shapes of the cut.There are hand routers and larger floor mounted routers. I dont know the difference in a plunge router.

Polisher and buffer are similar but polisher would bring out a higher gloss finish.

A sander can be disk or belt. Its used to grind off body putty, old paint or to smooth wood to prepare it for finishing ETC. The belt sander is used for flat surfaces. Both types use some type of sand paper as the cutting medium.

A chuch key eliminator may be a special drill chuck that is hand tightened so that a check key is not needed.

Hope this helps.

P E H

ericnguyen

You could go to the Harbor freight site and see all of these tools, just use their search.

http://www.harborfreight.com/cpi/ctaf/Displayitem.taf?itemnumber=2068

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is one equipped with a special type of bit so that you can start right in by lowering it downward into the wood rather than having to start from an edge or predrill a starting hole. Very useful for fine decorative work in cupboard panels, etc.

My 2 cents.


1 and 2 Both are basically the same. wether your polishing or buffing is determines by what "grit" of abrasive is used. In either a paste or liquid.

3. Sander. a tool that uses sandpaper to remove material. Either wood or metal. The "grit" of the sandpaper determines the rate at which the material is removed.
The sanders come in a variety of methods of removal. A belt sander for rapid removal. An orbital sheet sander for medium removal and they come in a veriety of sizes. And random orbital sander which is usually used for finish sanding, but if your agressive it can remove alot of material. These types of sanders are available in stationary as well as hand held units.

4, 5 and 6 Grinders, come in different sizes and methods of material removal. grinders are usually associated with metal removal since they use a stone or ceramic wheel to remove the metal. The wheel can be shaped like a tire and attach to a bench grinder, on the electric motor shafts. Or attach to the 90 shaft that comes off the motor. This is usually a disk that is used. The die and dremel grinder are hand held units that use a variety of shaped grinders or disks etc. to do more delicate work. Die grinders are ususlly air driven and the Dremel tool is electric.

7 and 8. Routers. routers are a woodworking tool that allows you to cut or shape, usuallly the edge of a piece of wood. Common router bits are roundovers, bevel edges etc that you do to a normally, flat piece of wood. Routers come in "trim" size, very small and uses 1/4" shaft bits. trim routers are used for fine and delicate routing. Normal routers vary from 3/4 HP to 3HP. and can be variable speed, 10,000 rpm to 25,000 rpm. A plunge Router allows the unit to be started and then the shafts on the base allow the cutting assembly to be dropped onto the wood. You would make a Key slot this way. Plunge router bits are usually different because you are cutting going down initially so the bit has to have plunging cutting ability as well as side cutting ability.
Routers are hand held or can be attached to bases. A larger version of a table router is a Shaper. It is a 1.5 to 5 HP electric motor that shapes wood much like a router does except it is more powerful and stationary.

9. See Grinders

10 and 11. already explained

12. Planners. There are 2 kinds of planners for woodworking. A thicknesser and a jointer. The thicknesser removes wood from one side of the board, but the board is sandwiched between the cutting head and the oposite plate. This planner will reduce a 3/4 inch thick peice of wood to 1/2" or 1/4" or what ever thickness you need. The "portable" thicknessers ususlly can handle a board 12 inches wide. Stationary planers go up to 30 inches or so. The Jointer is a planner that has a flate top table that has the cutter sticking through the table. you run the board over the table and it removes an amount of wood, usually 1/16 to 1/8 max, of wood. This helps you eliminate cupping or warpage of the wood. They come in 4" to 20" in size.

The rest were explained.

Dave

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