Whois & Analysis for wihatools.com

Wiha Tools is a manufacturer of hand tools for use in trade and industry, with its headquarters in Schonach im Schwarzwald in Baden-Württemberg, Germany.

Pliers are a hand tool used to hold objects firmly, possibly developed from tongs used to handle hot metal in Bronze Age Europe.

They are also useful for bending and compressing a wide range of materials.

Generally, pliers consist of a pair of metal first-class levers joined at a positioned closer to one end of the levers, creating short jaws on one side of the fulcrum, and longer handles on the other side.

This arrangement creates a mechanical advantage, allowing the force of the hand's grip to be amplified and focused on an object with precision.

The jaws can also be used to manipulate objects too small or unwieldy to be manipulated with the fingers.

A hex key, Allen key or Allen wrench is a tool used to drive bolts and screws with hexagonal sockets in their heads.

A screwdriver is a tool, manual or powered, for turning (driving or removing) screws.

A typical simple screwdriver has a handle and a shaft, and a tip that the user inserts into the screw head to turn it.

The shaft is usually made of tough steel to resist bending or twisting.

The tip may be hardened to resist wear, treated with a dark tip coating for improved visual contrast between tip and screw—or ridged or treated for additional 'grip'.

Handles are typically wood, metal, or plastic and usually hexagonal, square, or oval in cross-section to improve grip and prevent the tool from rolling when set down.

Some manual screwdrivers have interchangeable tips that fit into a socket on the end of the shaft and are held in mechanically or magnetically.

These often have a hollow handle that contains various types and sizes of tips, and a reversible ratchet action that allows multiple full turns without repositioning the tip or the user's hand.

A hand tool is any tool that is not a power tool – that is, one powered by hand (manual labour) rather than by an engine.

Some examples of hand tools are garden forks, secateurs, rakes, hammers, spanners, pliers, screwdrivers and chisels.

Hand tools are generally less dangerous than power tools.