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Glass & Glazing
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Working with Lathes
This program covers the safe and correct use of the Lathe. (1992: 25 mins).
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Best Glass Cutters Reviewed & Rated
Picking up the best glass cutter you can get your hands on really isn't that difficult - or that expensive, and you will be glad you did when it's time to precisely score your glass panes to get the best possible cut you can get. It will also help reduce wasted product due to unnecessary mistakes, caused by not using the right tool.
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Glazing Tools Buying Guide
Glazing tools are indispensable for anyone who needs to replace a broken window. Glass cutter, glazing hammer, silicone, putty, putty knife and glazing nails are the must have pieces of equipment. For both cutting glass with a grinder or drilling it with a diamond bit: here are all our tips!
Hand Tools
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The Tool Book
Clear photography and illustrations present more than 200 hand tools from every angle, showing you how to use and care for them, why each tool is right for the job and why it deserves pride of place in your collection.
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Woodworking with Hand Tools
In Woodworking with Hand Tools, expert craftsmen explain how they choose, sharpen, and use every kind of hand tool. There's advice on tool maintenance, techniques for getting the most from the tools, and projects made using hand tools. With clear photographs, drawings, and step-by-step instructions, Woodworking with Hand Tools will be a useful and necessary resource for anyone who works wood.
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Hand Tools - Safety and Technique
A Safetycare video - This program shows techniques and safe work practices relating to a wide range of basic hand tools. (1989 : 15 mins).
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Off Hand Grinding and Safety
This program covers types of grinding machines, components which make up a grinding machine, types of abrasive wheels, abrasive wheel identification, inspecting an abrasive wheel, fitting a new wheel, personal safety, dressing and truing abrasive wheels, how to use an off-hand grinding machine and sharpening a twist drill. (2012: 19 mins).
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General Hand Tools for Flooring Installation
Some general purpose tools are used in just about all of the trades that involve on-site installations. Below are the main hand tools that you're likely to have in common with the other building trades, even if you're using them for a different purpose.
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Hardened Steel Tools
Many steel tools or implements are hardened, or contain components made from hardened steel e.g. hammers, chisels, drill bits, pin punches, letter and numeric stamp punches, split wedges, crowbars and wrecking bars, cutting tools and various machinery parts.
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Nail Guns
Nail guns are used every day on many construction jobs, especially in residential construction. The most common nail guns used are pneumatic, but nail guns can also use gas (explosive) or electricity. Nail guns may boost productivity, but they also cause a number of serious injuries each year from unintended nail discharge.
Power Tools
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Woodworking with Power Tools
Expert craftsmen and craftswomen explain how they choose, maintain, and use every kind of power tool, from tablesaws to plunge routers, bandsaws to bench planers. There's advice on tool maintenance, techniques for getting the most from your tools, and projects made using power tools.
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Circular Saw Basics [Safety short]
Circular saws are used extensively for a variety of cutting operations. This safety short gives you a quick overview of how to operate a circular saw
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Complete Beginner's Guide to Using an Angle Grinder
Section 4 and 5 of this video focus on the operation of an Angle Grinder.
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Electrical Power Tools
This program shows operators how to get the best out of their Power Tools and how to use them effectively and safely. The tools covered in this program are power drills, belt and orbital sanders, jig and circular saw and power planers. (1992: 15 mins).
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STIHL - How to use a chainsaw
This video demonstrates the basic and safe use of a chainsaw. (8 mins)
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Nail Guns
Nail guns are used every day on many construction jobs, especially in residential construction. The most common nail guns used are pneumatic, but nail guns can also use gas (explosive) or electricity. Nail guns may boost productivity, but they also cause a number of serious injuries each year from unintended nail discharge.
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Working with Chainsaws: A Beginners Guide - Husqvarna
This webpage provides some useful instruction on how to operate a chainsaw as a beginner.
The Tool Book
Clear photography and illustrations present more than 200 hand tools from every angle, showing you how to use and care for them, why each tool is right for the job and why it deserves pride of place in your collection.
Woodworking with Hand Tools
In Woodworking with Hand Tools, expert craftsmen explain how they choose, sharpen, and use every kind of hand tool. There's advice on tool maintenance, techniques for getting the most from the tools, and projects made using hand tools. With clear photographs, drawings, and step-by-step instructions, Woodworking with Hand Tools will be a useful and necessary resource for anyone who works wood.
Woodworking with Power Tools
Expert craftsmen and craftswomen explain how they choose, maintain, and use every kind of power tool, from tablesaws to plunge routers, bandsaws to bench planers. There's advice on tool maintenance, techniques for getting the most from your tools, and projects made using power tools.