enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Nipper (tool) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nipper_(tool)

    A nipper or tile nipper (like a pair of scissors or pliers) is a tool used to "nip" or remove small amounts of a hard material, such as pieces of a tile, which needs to be fitted around an odd or irregular shape. Drop forged tile nippers with soft plastic handle sheaths. Drawing of a hoof nipper. For tile that requires a straight cut a tile ...

  3. Pincers (tool) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pincers_(tool)

    If the pincers have perpendicular cutting edges, the pincers are often called end-nippers or end-cutters. They're often used in jewelry making, for trimming flat wire or cutting off the end of an ear stud. [3] Pincers, often red-hot, have also been used as an instrument of torture [4] since ancient Roman times or earlier.

  4. Ticket punch - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ticket_punch

    A ticket punch (or control nippers) is a hand tool for permanently marking admission tickets and similar items of paper or card stock. It makes a perforation and a corresponding chad . A ticket punch resembles a hole punch , differing in that the ticket punch has a longer jaw (or "reach") and the option of having a distinctive die shape.

  5. Model building code - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_building_code

    In the United States, model building codes are adopted by the state governments, counties, fire districts, and municipalities.A number of federal agencies—including the U.S. Department of Defense, the National Park Service, the Department of State and the Forest Service—use private-sector model codes for projects funded by the federal government.

  6. Railroad Model Craftsman - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_Model_Craftsman

    Railroad Model Craftsman is an American magazine specializing in the hobby of model railroading. The magazine is published monthly by White River Productions, which acquired the title from Carstens Publications in 2014. Its first issue in March 1933 was called The Model Craftsman because it

  7. Scratch building - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scratch_building

    A 7cm long scratch-built model of 1/700 scale Japanese gunboat Fushimi (1939), built out of paper and copper wire. A scratch-built 1:87 scale model of an old Vespa garage in Causeway Bay, Hong Kong 1950s, mainly built out of Foamcore and plastic card. A scratch-built 1:150 model of Hong Kong's 'Tong Lau' tenement building.

  8. Model building - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_building

    A builder working on a model. Model building is a hobby and career [1] [2] that involves the creation of physical models either from kits or from materials and components acquired by the builder. The kits contain several pieces that need to be assembled in order to make a final model.

  9. Testor Corporation - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testor_Corporation

    In January 1986 Testors released a model kit of a hypothetical F-19 Stealth Fighter, designed using open source intelligence [6] [7] before the real F-117 Nighthawk was introduced. Although it was very different from the actual plane, [8] video games and many other toys and models were inspired by this fictional design. Many features, such as ...