4.2 Driving Tools

• Driving tools: tools that strike and tools that turn
• Hammers: parts and types
• Using a hammer to drive and pull nails
• Mallets and their uses
• Screwdrivers: types, and fitting the tip to the screw
• Spanners: types, sizes and use
• Punches: centre, dot, pin and nail punches
• Safe use, care and storage of driving tools

• identify driving tools used in day-to-day life
• select driving tools for performing given tasks
• use driving tools to perform given tasks
• care for driving tools used in day-to-day life
• acknowledge the importance of driving tools in day-to-day life

“How are driving tools used in day-to-day life?”

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1. Driving tools: strike it or turn it
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Hammers, mallets and punches strike; screwdrivers and spanners turn.
2. Hammers
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Face, pein, eye, wedge and handle, and four hammers for four kinds of work.
3. Driving and pulling nails
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Start, drive, finish. And to pull one out, let the claw hammer work as a lever.
4. Mallets
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A softer blow for work a steel hammer would split, dent or stretch.
5. Screwdrivers
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Match the tip to the screw, push as you turn, and never use it as a lever.
6. Spanners
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Size across the flats, the exact fit, and pull rather than push.
7. Punches
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   A punch carries a hammer blow to one exact point, and the point decides the job.
8. Driving tools: safe use, care and storage
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Check, clean, protect, store. A damaged driving tool fails at the moment force is applied.