Tuesday, 14 August 2012

Tools etc.

Basic Tools

  • Piercing saw
  • Pliers - flat nose round nose
  • Needle files
  • Small vice
  • Hammer
  • Bench with pin
  • Tin snips
  • Safety goggles

Useful tools

  • Soldering equipment
  • Wooden mallet
  • Triblet
  • Riffler files
  • Wooden punches
  • Ring sizers
  • Doming block
  • Anvil / steel block
  • Files
  • Pliers - half round, parallel, snipe
  • Scribe
  • Hand drill
  • Pin vice
  • Doming block
  • Swage block
  • Metal punches
  • Burnisher
  • Suede stick
  • Emery stick
  • Sandbag
  • Ring holder
  • Hand vice
  • Hammers - planishing (for smoothing), pin (for riveting), chasing; and blocking, raising, creasing (all for forging)
  • Steel Ruler
  • Engineer's square
  • Punches / Chasing tools
  • Pitch bowl
  • Micrometer
  • Callipers

Large equipment

  • Ultrasonic cleaner (or a toothbrush with warm water and washing up liquid)
  • Tumbler/Barrel polisher
  • Rolling mill
  • Pendant motor
  • Kiln
  • Stakes
  • Bench press

Chemicals

  • Safety pickle
  • Bicarbonate of soda
  • Argotec
  • Liver of Sulphur
  • Pumice powder
  • Steel wool
  • Setters wax
  • Borax