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  2. List of timber framing tools - Wikipedia

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    Tools include dividers, axes, chisel and mallet, beam cart, pit saw, trestles, and bisaigue. The men talking may be holding a story pole and rule (or walking cane). Shear legs are hoisting a timber. Below, the sticks on the log are winding sticks used to align the ends of a timber. Tools used in traditional timber framing date back thousands of ...

  3. Trimmer (construction) - Wikipedia

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    In light-frame construction, a trimmer is a timber or metal beam (joist) used to create an opening around a stairwell, skylight, chimney, and the like. Trimmers are installed parallel to the primary floor or ceiling joists and support headers, which run perpendicular to the primary joists.

  4. ISO 668 - Wikipedia

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    Introduced in 1968, ISO 668 currently regulates both external and internal dimensions of containers, as well as the minimum door opening sizes, where applicable. Minimum internal dimensions were earlier defined by ISO standard 1894: ' General purpose series 1 freight containers – Minimum internal dimensions ' . [ 3 ]

  5. Glossary of woodworking - Wikipedia

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    A type of moulding that is part of a larger piece of wood such as a frame (as opposed to being applied independently). stile. Also called a style. A vertical member of a frame on a door, window or panel. Contrast rail. stringer A timber, usually 2 by 12 inches (5.1 cm × 30.5 cm), that supports the treads and rises in a staircase. sweep 1.

  6. Wall stud - Wikipedia

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    trimmer or jack − stud to the left or right of a window or door that runs from the bottom plate to the underside of a lintel or header; cripple stud – a stud located either above or below a framed opening, that does not run the full height of the wall; post or column − a doubled or other integral multiple of a group of studs nailed side ...

  7. Frame and panel - Wikipedia

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    Frame and panel construction at its most basic consists of five members: the panel and the four members which make up the frame. The vertical members of the frame are called stiles while the horizontal members are known as rails. A basic frame and panel item consists of a top rail, a bottom rail, two stiles, and a panel.

  8. Door closer - Wikipedia

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    Another device for smaller domestic doors used a loop of rope or skein fixed to the door frame, that was twisted, with a piece of wood placed in between the twists to push the door. The opening of the door twists the skein further, when the door is released the rope's torsional force pushes the arm back against the door, thereby closing it. [5] [6]

  9. Cleco (fastener) - Wikipedia

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    Cleco (Cleko) fasteners on an aircraft wing. A cleco, also spelled generically cleko, is a temporary fastener developed by the Cleveland Pneumatic Tool Company. [1] Widely used in the manufacture and repair of aluminum-skinned aircraft, it is used to temporarily fasten sheets of material together, or to hold parts such as stiffeners, frames etc together, before they are permanently joined.