tommy bar
English
T-handle wrench with integral tommy bar as the handle; the grooves in the bar serve the ball detent to keep the bar in place. A socket and extension are attached.
Noun
tommy bar (plural tommy bars)
- (engineering, machining) A cylindrical iron or steel bar used as a lever; thus:
- A short bar put through the hole in a socket spanner or box spanner to provide leverage.
- A bar used to loosen or tighten some types of chucks and tool holders on machine tools such as lathes or milling machines.
- A set of two tommy bars is the standard tooling for the spindle nose threads of some minilathes and minimills.
Translations
short bar
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See also
- (tool containing an integral tommy bar): T-handle
- (tool involving an analogous male cylindrical portion): pin spanner
- (hooked bars, differentiated from tommy bars): crowbar, prybar, jimmy
Further reading
Wrench on Wikipedia.Wikipedia