This Standard provides performance and safety re-quirements for pliers suitable for cutting wire; for long-nose, long-reach pliers; for hand shears generally used for cutting sheet metal; for wire-twister pliers,which are used primarily for securing safety wires; for pliers suitable for inserting and removing internal and external retaining rings, including those covered by ASME B18.27; for

This Standard provides performance and safety re-quirements for combination, open end, box, and flare nut wrenches; open end adjustable wrenches, with rack and worm adjustment, generally used on both hexa-gonal and square fasteners; crowfoot wrenches having a wrench componentofthe open end type or flare nuttype;and ratchetingbox wrenches used in hexagonal (6-point),double-hexagonal (12-point), square (4-point), and

This Standard establishes final inspection gage sizes and test mandrel sizes for wrench openings and spark plugwrench openings forinch and metric sizes. This Stan-dard does not cover every available size, only those most commonly manufactured.

This Standard applies to portable power tools for drilling, grinding, polishing, sawing, and driving threaded fasteners,and hand tools for driving threaded fasteners. Other tools not classed as percussion tools belong in this category and may be added by revision or addition through the usual procedure. This Standard includes dimensions and tolerances for both driving and

This Standard provides a useful criterion of practice in the production, distribution, and use of high-speed steel, grit edge, and carbide-tipped nonadjustable hole saws and their accessories. This Standard covers definitions, standard sizes, di-mensions, tolerances, tooth configuration, and quality requirements for the hole saws and their accessories covered by this Standard.

In cases of disagreement regarding the interpretation of surface texture measurements, it is recommended that measurements with skidless stylus-based instruments with Gaussian filtering be used as the basis for interpreta-tion. The following key measurement parameters must be established for proper surface texture specification and measurement.