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Chicago Pneumatic, also known as "CP", is an industrial manufacturer providing power tools, air compressors, generators, light towers and hydraulic equipment. Products are sold in more than 150 countries through a worldwide distribution network.
Ideal was founded in 1916 by J. Walter Becker as the Ideal Commutator Dresser Company in Chicago, Illinois, manufacturing commutator dresser stones. [6] In 1924, Becker relocated the company to its current location in Sycamore, Illinois. [7]
Armstrong Tools was an American industrial hand tool manufacturer. [1] In its final years, it existed as a brand of Apex Tool Group , LLC and manufactured the majority of its tools in the United States, focusing mostly on aerospace, government, and military users.
Benchtop drill press (left) and floor-standing drill press (right) A drill press is a drilling machine suitable for quick and easy drilling of straight holes, countersinking or counterboring that are perpendicular to both directions of a table surface. In comparison, it is more difficult and less repeatable to drill perpendicularly with a hand ...
Tapered shank tools are removed from a socket using different approaches, depending on the design of the socket. In drill presses and similar tools, the tool is removed by inserting a wedge shaped block of metal called a "drift" into a rectangular shaped cross hole through the socket and tapping it. As the cross section of the drift gets larger ...
The Chicago Tool Library started in the summer of 2019 in Bridgeport on the southside of Chicago as a community-driven organization that rented out donated tools. The inventory was wide-ranging from the beginning, ranging from power tools to masonry, woodworking and food-preparation hardware. To join, the annual fee was set at $1 for every ...
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A machinist operating a drill press in 1917. The tools that a machinist is expected to be proficient with fall into broad categories: Measuring tools: The measuring tools come in several basic varieties: Comparison tools such as adjustable parallels and plain calipers, Direct reading tools such as rules, scales, and vernier calipers,