Types Of Punches Tools And Their Uses. They usually derive their names from characteristic shapes as s wrench angle wrench. Workshops use punches for locating centers for drawing circles to punch holes in sheet metals to start holes for drilling to remove damaged rivets.
In practice you first use a drive punch. Punches are indentation tools. This is called the pin or drift punch.
Punches and chisels have been in use for centuries.
They were used primarily to create holes in stock before modern drills came into use. It s shaped a little like a pen but the business end doesn t discharge ink. The sides of a drive punch will taper all the way down to the face but sometimes you may need to use a punch with a straight shank. To look at it a punch is obviously manufactured from an equally rigid metal.
