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Workshop tools

There are a wide and varied range of tools that the home workshop owner can buy to complement his main machines tools. A lot of these are a bit of a mystery to the newcomer - so I have collected together my articles relating to the different home workshop tools that you might come across.

Collets in the home workshop

Copper hammers, drifts etc

Cutting fluid

Dial indicators and dial test indicators

Drill bits

Glanze boring bar

Workshop consumables

Measuring and micrometers

How to read a micrometer

The Sieg X1 micro mill

The Sieg X1 micro mill table extension

Morse tapers

Reamers

Slitting saws

Taps and tapping on a mill

General tools

Transfer punches

Delrin

more on drills

Engineering parallels

Recommended suppliers