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Husky is a line of hand tools, pneumatic tools, and tool storage products. Though founded in 1924, it is now best known as the house brand of The Home Depot, where it is exclusively sold. Its hand tools are manufactured for Home Depot by Western Forge, Apex Tool Group, and Iron Bridge Tools. [1] Its slogan is "The toughest name in tools."
Channellock is an American company that produces hand tools. It is best known for its pliers—the company manufactures more than 75 types and sizes of pliers [1] —particularly its eponymous style of tongue-and-groove, slip-joint pliers. [2]
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 8 February 2025. American multinational home improvement supplies retailing company The Home Depot, Inc. An aerial view of a Home Depot in Onalaska, Wisconsin. Company type Public Traded as NYSE: HD DJIA component S&P 100 component S&P 500 component Industry Retail (home improvement) Founded February 6 ...
Diagonal pliers, also called side cutters, are a similarly shaped tool used for cutting rather than holding, having a pair of stout blades, similar to scissors except that the cutting surfaces meet parallel to each other rather than overlapping. Ordinary (holding/squeezing) pliers may incorporate a small pair of such cutting blades.
Round nose pliers are commonly used in electronics [1] and electrical wiring for forming a loop at the end of a wire and in jewelry making to form a variety of bends in wire. [2] Rosary beads closeup showing wire loops.
Chandeliers in the Bibliothèque Mazarine (Paris) Surface-mounted light – the finished housing is exposed, not flush with the surface. Low-bay lighting with sphere outline. Chandelier – Branched ornamental light fixture designed to be mounted on ceilings; Pendant light – suspended from the ceiling with a chain or pipe.
Most chain tools are designed for chains where the links have flat plates. For chains with complicated shaped plates designed to facilitate smooth shifting, specific chain tools are available which are identical in design and operation, but have the ears protruding into the chain shaped in cross section to fit the links of the particular chain in question precisely, so as to hold the pin in ...
The word chandelier was first known in the English language in the sense as used today in 1736, borrowed from the word in French that means a candleholder. It may have been derived from chandelle meaning "tallow candle", [4] or chandelabre in Old French and candēlābrum in Latin, and ultimately from candēla meaning "candle".