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Harbor Freight Tools, commonly referred to as Harbor Freight, is an American privately held tool and equipment retailer, headquartered in Calabasas, California. It operates a chain of retail stores, as well as an e-commerce business. The company employs over 28,000 people in the United States, [5] and has over 1,500 locations in 48 states. [6] [7]
OTC Tool Company logo. OTC Tools (originally Owatonna Tool Company) is a tool and equipment manufacturer.It was founded in Owatonna, Minnesota, by Godfrey Kaplan, who operated a small machine shop there.
A click torque wrench. A torque wrench is a tool used to apply a specific torque to a fastener such as a nut, bolt, or lag screw.It is usually in the form of a socket wrench with an indicating scale, or an internal mechanism which will indicate (as by 'clicking', a specific movement of the tool handle in relation to the tool head) when a specified (adjustable) torque value has been reached ...
A needle file set. A hand tool is any tool that is powered by hand rather than a motor. [1] Categories of hand tools include wrenches, pliers, cutters, files, striking tools, struck or hammered tools, screwdrivers, vises, clamps, snips, hacksaws, drills, and knives.
All have a torque-limiting clutch that disengages once the preset torque has been reached. Torque screwdrivers can exert torques from 0.04 N⋅m to at least 27 N⋅m. [1] Although no single tool covers the entire range, low-, mid-, and high-torque ranges are available. Torque screwdrivers and torque wrenches have similar purposes and mechanisms.
A key component of modern torque testers is the digital display. A digital display is used to measure the output signal from the transducer and calculates that reading into a torque value that is displayed on screen. In most cases the display and transducer are contained together inside a housing. This is known as a "Desktop Torque Tester".
In 1882, James Harvey Williams and Matthew Diamond founded Williams & Diamond in Flushing, Queens, a drop forging business. [2] The business was relocated to Brooklyn in 1884 and took the name J.H. Williams & Co in 1887.
Wera Tools is a global tool manufacturer. [15] [16] Its global headquarters and European sales team is based in Wuppertal, Germany.Wera has wholly owned regional subsidiaries, for example in the United Kingdom (based in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England) and North America (based in Ontario, Canada), where it is known as Wera Tools Inc. Outside these areas, the company operates through a ...