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 weights 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 2 1/2 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.

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Tinners Snips

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Soldering Copper And Alcohol Lamp

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Flat Nose Side Cutting Pliers

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Flat Nose Pliers

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Round Nose Pliers

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A Bench Level

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A Wire Guage

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A Rose Countersink

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A Taper Reamer

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Oil Can And Oilstone

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Set Of Screw Cutting Taps And D/Es

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Machinists Vise

Fig. 27. The Chief Metal Working Tools

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Hand Drill Stock And Drill

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Spring Dividers

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Spring Calipers Outside

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Spring Calipers Inside

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Jewellers Adjustable Saw Frame

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Hack Saw

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Steel Rule

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Machinist's Steel Square

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Center Punch

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Cold Chisel

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1-Shell Square Taper 2-Round Or Rat Tail 3-Hand Or Flat Kinds Of Files

Fig. 28. Some Other Metal Working Tools

(15) A few files - flat, hand, round and halfround 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.