YOUR TOOL BOX.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19458, 14 October 1926, Page 7

YOUR TOOL BOX.

A useful tool outfit for odd jobs about the house consists of a small claw hammer, a combined tack hammer and puller, a small handsaw, a gimlet, a file, a bradawl, a screwdriver and a pair of nippers. The nippers are useful to cut •wire, turn screws and pull nails. Apart from actual tools the home carpenter should keep an assortment of wire nails, screws and tacks and a glue pot. In driving a nail into hard wood, use quiw light taps in preference to hard bicws. Greasing the point of the nail is a goou dodge. When driving nails into thin wood, on the other hand, prepare a hole with a gimlet, to prevent the danger of splitting the wood. . With screws always use a gimlet to start the hole. To make screwing easy touch the screw tip with heavy grease, lard or soap. An awl is splendid for starting small screws and nails, as it avoids the danger of splitting fine wood, as in a picture frame. To use an awl properly place the tool where vou wish to start the bole, press fairly" hard and turn your wrist backwards * and forwards. Some people find it difficult to start a saw going. Begin on the back stroke, as it does not dig in, and the mark for sawing can be more easily started. If, ou pushing forward, the saw "jumps" drciw it backwards several . times, then push forward lightly and the cut will b® started cleanly. r ' ;