Tools of the Trade
General Armoury Equipment
| Allen Key (6mm) | Used to tighten grips and pommels. |
| Small Flathead Screw Driver | Used to replace grub screws. |
| Larger Flat head Screw Driver | Used to tighten sockets and undoing some body wires (Uhlmann). |
| Medium Philips head Screw Driver | Used to undo body wires (Chinese). |
| Wire Strippers | Used to strip body wires and Ground wires. |
| Insulation Tape | Used to isolate the tip on foils. |
| Sandpaper | Used to clean the blade, barrel and tip |
| Pliers | Used to unclamp crocodile clips, cut wires, hold nuts, and tighten sabrés |
| Scissors | Used to cut tape |
| Spanner | Used to tighten some sabrés and nuts |
| Foil Springs | For inside the barrel |
| Foil Tips | For inside the barrel |
| Foil Grub screws | Hold the tip in the barrel |
| Foil/Sabré Socket | Between the handle and the guard (what the body wire plugs into) |
| Epée Springs | Big ones for in the barrel, small ones for the base of the tip |
| Epée Tips | For inside the barrel |
| Epée Grub screws | To hold the tip in the barrel |
| Epée Sockets | Between the handle and the gard (what the body wire plugs into) |
| Foil/Epée Nuts and Spring Washes | Inside the handle (holds the weapon together) |
| Sabré pommels | Holds the weapon together |
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Optional Armoury Equipment |
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| Metal file | Used to clean barrels and tips |
| Lighter | Used to burn off excess insulation on wires |
| Craft knife | Used to remove the tape of a foil |
| Multi-meter | Used to test conductivity of lamées and wires |
| Body wire tester | Used to test body wires |
| Lamé tester | Used to test lamés |
| Soldering Iron | Used to attach crocodile clips and Spool ends with solder |
| Super Glue | Used to glue wires down in blades |
| Eye Protection | Used when holding the blade under tension |
| Epée Gages | 1.5mm clearance between tip and barrel. 0.5mm clearance between tip and barrel when tip is pressed (no hit should register). |
| Epée Weight | 750g weight to be held by the barrel spring |
| Foil Weight | 500g weight to be held by barrel spring |
| Sabré Gage | 4mm gage for the tip. 1.2mm gage for the cutting edge at the base of the tip |
| Blade-wireing Jig | Used to hold the blade in place whilst wiring |