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Many other not 'purely Metric' sized, safety tools are also available. Please inquire for their price and availability. Axes, bull points, brooms, caulking tools, crate openers, chisels, clamps, crow bars, files, flange spreaders, garden forks, hammers, hatchets, hoes, knives, mallets, mattocks, nail pullers, picks, pincers, pipe cutters, pliers, probes, rakes, saws, scissors, scrapers, scoops, shears, spades, spatulas, tin snips, trowels, tool sets, wedges, wrecking bars, wire brushes and more.

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Spark resistant safety tools are also rust proof in water and sea water, corrosion resistant to many chemicals, and have very low magnetic attraction. Safety tools are recommended to prevent explosions and fires when working in areas where hazardous gas, vapors or dust is present, or where magnetic steel tools cannot be used. Safety tools are made of special alloys, selected for their spark resistance and mechanical properties in consideration of the function of the tool. Hard and wear resistant aluminum-bronzes having good hardness and very good elongation, beryllium copper with still greater hardness and sufficient elongation for some purposes, and some other special alloys are specified depending on the intended use of the tool, but always with spark resistance as the major consideration. Since it is impossible, for metallurgical reasons, to produce spark resistant tools with the mechanical properties, especially the hardness, of high strength alloy steel, it is necessary to handle these tools with special care. Abuse should be avoided, such as extending normal handles of wrenches with a pipe, using air hammer tools as wrecking bars, and so on.