mandrel

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The prop sits on a mandrel that supports it firmly.

From Time Magazine Archive

Then a mandrel in the center is pulled out, leaving a roughly star-shaped cavity on whose surface the fuel will start to burn when the rocket is fired.

From Time Magazine Archive

For holes in the edge of the work, the whole top of slide rest is turned round till the spindle is at right angles with the mandrel.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua

A bit of the wire of proper length is first doubled and then by a special contrivance the two ends are bent around a mandrel so as to form an insertion point or loop.

From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by Riley, C. V.

The mandrel must be placed with the centres d receiving the lathe centres.

From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua