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Uses of drawing instruments and materials

Uses of Drawing Instruments and Materials (i) A drawing board is the wooden platform on which the drawing paper is […]

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Drawing tools and materials

Technical drawing is a universal language used for communication among technical people. A good and accurate drawing can only be made […]

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Care and maintenance of metal work tools

Care of Files (i) A file cuts the metal during the forward stroke; therefore pressure on the file should be […]

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Driving tools and cutting tools

Driving tools are tools used for pushing in nails, screws into position. Examples are: Hammers: Hammers have two distinct parts, the […]

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Tools used for Marking out, measuring and gauging

Marking Out Tools These are hand tools used for marking out the required shapes of a particular metal from the […]

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Holding devices, cutting and pairing tools

Woodworking holding devices are the tools used to hold the work piece on the workbench. Woodworkers work on workbenches.  It […]

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Boring tools

Boring is the act of making narrow holes in a material such as in wood or metal. Holes are bored […]

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Driving and boring tools

Driving tools are used to fix nails and screws into wooden and metal materials. Nails are the iron material with […]

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Woodwork hand tools

There are six classes of wood work hand tools. They are: Measuring tools Marking out/setting out tools Work holding tools […]

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Meaning of Journals

Journals are documents which contain the daily records of business transactions. Information from source documents are first recorded in journals before […]