H. Tech: PC Tools Kit

Chip Inserter with Pin Straightener

Function: This tool is designed to insert a DIP chip into a circuit board.

Twizers

Function: Twizers is used for inserting and removing jumper’s blocks. It is very useful to hold small parts which are dropped in an accessible place.

Needle Nose Pliers

Function: Needle Nose Pliers is used to insert and remove jumper blocks, straighten bent pins and connectors, and remove cables.

Soldering Iron

Function: To join the two objects together so they can join together permanently with the solder.

Wire-cutters and Strippers

Function: The cutter piece is adjacent to the hinge itself. It is used to cut off the length of wire needed, as well as to remove a faulty piece of wire. Moving down the handle, different notches are present to indicate where to use the wire stripper tool for different sizes of wire. This enables plastic coating to be easily stripped off without inflicting damage to the wire.

Adjustable Wench

Function: It is a spanner with a “jaw” of adjustable width which allows it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt etc.) rather than just one fastener, as with a conventional fixed spanner.

Screwdrivers

Torx Screwdriver or Bits

Function: These are the star-shaped screwdriver heads that are used to make equipment “tamper-proof”.

Slotted Screwdriver

Function: It is a good screwdriver with magnetic, interchangeable bits and a comfortable handle. The magnetic tip will prevent screws falling into the PC, and will let you get access to drives mounted deep in your system case.

Nut Driver

Nut Driver 3/16″

Function: It is the really important one because this is the size of nut most commonly used on PCs. These hexagonal nuts are used as mounting hardware for motherboards and serial and parallel ports.

Nut Driver 1/4″

Function: It allows one to use a single handle with a number of sizes instead of having a separate nut driver for each size.

Chip Extractor

Function: These tools is used to remove chips from regular (non-ZIF) sockets, but modern PCs do not generally use these sockets any more. It is useful for upgrading much older systems in some cases.

Three Prong Parts Retriever

Function: These tools is used to remove chips from regular (non-ZIF) sockets, but modern PCs do not generally use these sockets any more. It is useful for upgrading much older systems in some cases.

Spare Part Tubes