A Guide to Basic Hand Tools : Understand the Belt Hand Tool

Posted October 25th, 2009 in the Hand Tools category.




Learn how to use the belt hand tool in thisfree educational video series. Expert: Jay Greco Bio: Jay Greco is a contractor in St. Petersburg, Florida, and a master with hand tools of all kinds. Filmmaker: Christopher Rokosz

How can I drill a 2″ hole into 1/4″ of cast iron with a hand drill?

Posted October 25th, 2009 in the Hand Tools category.




What tool can I use and how can I go about drilling a 2 inch hole into 1/4 inches of cast iron? I only have a hand drill to use.

what is the BEST GLASS HAND CUTTING TOOL AVAILABLE?

Posted September 22nd, 2009 in the Hand Tools category.




HELP

What tool would I use to straighten my bike wheel?

Posted September 1st, 2009 in the Hand Tools category.




I’ve been told that there is a tool (small, hand tool) that can straighten wheels. I remember being told it has something to do with the spokes. Anyone have any ideas what this tool is?

I can’t use any tool in Photoshop besides the hand. Why?

Posted January 16th, 2009 in the Hand Tools category.




I’m running Adobe Photoshop CS4 64-bit (I also have the 32-bit version installed, but it gives me the same problem) on Windows 7 RC.

No matter what I try to do in a new or existing document, I can only access the hand tool. Whether I click on the brush, the lasso, or the marquee, the hand is still the only thing to show up when I move my cursor to the page.

Does anyone know why this might be? I’m very frustrated as I can’t do anything in Photoshop. None of the other programs in the suite give me this problem. Why is Photoshop doing it?
The space-bar is not held down, and the tools in the tools palette do in fact appear selected, but the cursor does not change in any way to reflect the new tool; it remains a hand and it acts like a hand. That is, if I have an image opened, dragging the image with the hand will move the image correspondingly.