- Industry: Aviation
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- Company Profile:
Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A hand-held saw using a narrow, fine-tooth, replaceable blade, held under tension in a metal frame. Hacksaw blades used for cutting metal and other hard materials are designed to cut only on the forward movement of the blade. The blade should be lifted from the work on its return stroke.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-held tool used for pounding. A hammer has a heavy, hard steel head mounted across the end of its handle. There are a number of types of hammer heads. Claw hammers have claws on one side of the head for removing nails. Ball peen hammers have a ball on one side of the head for forming heads on rivets. Cross peen and straight peen hammers have a wedge on one side of their head for shaping sheet metal.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-held tool used to melt solder. Modern soldering irons are electrically heated and use a tinned copper tip (a copper tip covered with solder) to melt the solder.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-held torch that uses liquid gasoline as a fuel. Air is pumped into the fuel tank, and the liquid fuel sprays out into the burner where it becomes a vapor. The air compressed in the tank blows through the flame and intensifies it.
Gasoline blowtorches have been replaced, to a great extent, by torches using propane or other liquified petroleum products as their fuel.
Industry:Aviation
A handle that has a ratchet built into its head, and used to drive a socket wrench. Back-and-forth movement of the handle causes the socket to rotate in one direction. By reversing the pawl in the ratchet head, the same back-and-forth movement of the handle will rotate the socket in the opposite direction.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-operated fluid pump that moves fluid during both strokes of the pump handle.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-operated fluid pump that moves fluid only during one stroke of the pump handle. One stroke pulls the fluid into the pump, and the other forces the fluid out.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-operated hydraulic pump unloading valve. When the valve is open, fluid flows from the pump to the reservoir with little opposition. To actuate a unit, the selector valve is turned to select the desired actuation and the power control valve is manually closed. Pressurized fluid flows to the unit, and when actuation is completed, the power control valve automatically opens.
Industry:Aviation
A hand-operated tool used to turn a twist drill. The twist drill is mounted in a drill chuck which is turned with a set of bevel gears driven by a hand crank.
Industry:Aviation
A handy knot used for such aeronautical purposes as securing an aircraft to prevent wind damage.
A properly tied bowline knot will not slip, and it is easy to untie.
Industry:Aviation
