IMD 4041 - Tool Equipment & Shop Practice

• Describe hand tools used by the air-conditioning, heating, and refrigeration technician.

• Describe equipment used to install and service air-conditioning, heating, and refrigeration systems.

•Describe equipment and tools used by residential energy auditors.

• Identify common fasteners used with wood.

•Identify common fasteners used on hollow walls.

•Identify common fasteners used with sheet metal.

•Write and explain a typical tapping screw dimension.

•Identify typical machine screw heads.

•Write and explain each part of a machine screw thread dimension.

•Identify and describe fasteners used in masonry applications.

•Describe hanging devices for piping, tubing, and ductwork.

• Describe solderless terminals and screw-on wire connectors.

• List the different types of tubing used in heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration applications.

• Describe two common ways of cutting copper tubing.

• List procedures used for bending tubing.

• Discuss procedures used for soldering and brazing tubing.

• Describe two methods for making flared joints.

• State procedures for making swaged joints.

• Explain how a compression fitting is made.

• Describe procedures for preparing and threading steel pipe ends.

• List four types of plastic pipe and describe uses for each.

• Describe alternative, mechanical methods for joining pipe sections.

• Describe instruments used in heating, air-conditioning, and refrigeration.

• Test and calibrate a basic thermometer at the low- and high-temperature ranges.

• Check an ohmmeter for accuracy.

• Describe the comparison test for an ammeter and a voltmeter.

• Describe procedures for checking pressure instruments above and below atmospheric pressure.

• Check flue-gas analysis instruments.