What type of joint would you use for a interchangeable garden tool?

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xbrownangelx

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For my resistant materials second paper on Monday the theme is "Garden Hand Tools".

We need to know about Single and interchangeable tools and i was wondering what you would use on the tool to make it interchangeable so that the head of the tool could be changed into about 3 tools e.g. a trowel, small fork, small rake.

So, what type of joining (fabricating) would you use?

Any information you have on garden hand tools would be useful as well please.

Thanks :)
How would you do the threaded or pinned connection?
 
Threads wear out too easy I think i'd go with the pin connection like vacuum cleaners use. it is a spring loaded pin that can be depressed to slide of one head to change it to another. More than one of the pins can be used for more strength. Naturally the handle would have to be hollow, therefore metal.
 
if it's going to last, I'd like something like is used on quick connects and air hoses.... draw back that one piece and fit the two together, then let go the slide piece and they're good to go.... any connection must be triple strong, tho.... the stresses put on them in MY soil will bend steel!!.... the only trowel that ever held up here was a sold steel one piece jobbie!!.... consider that and look to making the connector up in the handle, not anywhere near the blade, fork, etc....
 
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