If you're looking for a portable heater to decrease the chill in your workspace or a small room in your home, you have two general options: convection and radiant. Choosing one over the other depends primarily on whether you want to heat ...
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Air compressors are used in a wide variety of fields, from manufacturing and industrial plants to commercial businesses and households.Among their many functions, air compressors are used to power pneumatic tools.These air tools utilize ...
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A flange is a projecting rim, collar, or ring on a shaft, pipe, machine housing, etc., cast or formed to give additional strength, stiffness, or supporting area, or to provide a place for the attachment of other objects. The term "flange" ...
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A pair of scissors consists of two pivoted blades. In lower quality scissors the cutting edges are not particularly sharp; it is primarily the shearing action between the two blades that cuts the material. In high quality scissors the ...
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The hydraulic valve is like a traffic control signal at a four-way intersection. It might allow east and westbound traffic lanes to continuously flow until the light changes, which would permit the north or southbound lanes to flow. The ...
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Tool safety is an important concern for anyone using tools on a job site. During the course of a workday it is possible that many people will come into contact with the tools on a job site. To insure everyone's safety there needs to be ...
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A screw is a shaft with a helical groove or thread formed on its surface and provision at one end to turn the screw. Its main uses are as a threaded fastener used to hold objects together, and as a simple machine used to translate torque ...
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Most screws have slot heads and are driven with slotted, or standard, screwdrivers. Phillips-head screws have crossed slots and are driven with Phillips screwdrivers. Screws are measured in both length and diameter at the shank, which is ...
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Circular saws are used to cut a variety of woods of varying thickness and wood types. They can be used to make clean, precision-cut straight lines in wood that is placed on a table designed for circular saw use. Safety is important when ...
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To make power tools last for years, proper care and maintenance is essential. It is important to clean and store the tools properly to obtain optimal performance over time. Tools that are just left around are more likely to malfunction as a ...
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Expand creative possibilities by learning how to create decorative ceramic tiles that can be used for interior design or craft projects. Ceramic artists can use tile to create a world of interesting murals and designs on walls, floors or ...
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We tend to spend quite a bit of time in our bathrooms, although generally they are the smallest spaces in our homes. The bathroom is one of the most personal and private places that we have in our everyday life, and the way in which we ...
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Houses are shrinking in the recessionary economy, but kitchens? Not so much. As other rooms are eliminated from downsized plans, their functions are naturally migrating to the kitchen, placing more pressure than ever on this culinary zone ...
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In the early 90s, I knew I wanted to live off-grid at some point. I started to conserve electricity by being very conscious about turning off lights and using lower wattage bulbs (this was before CFLs). I read about phantom loads, the ...
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Gear pumps Gear pumps (with external teeth) (fixed displacement) are simple and economical pumps. The swept volume or displacement of gear pumps for hydraulics will be between about 1 cm3 (0.001 litre) and 200 cm3 (0.2 litre). These pumps ...
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