mandrel

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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

The prop sits on a mandrel that supports it firmly.

From Time Magazine Archive

At one end of the screw arbor, or mandrel was a small brass circle f, having its edge divided into 60 parts, numbered at every sixth division, as before mentioned.

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

At a is a flat place to receive the set-screw of the driver or lathe dog, and at b a flat place upon which the diameter of the mandrel is marked.

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

The half-round mandrel being fixed to the lathe face plate will remain true, obviating the liability of the centre of the spherical surface being out of line with the axis of the bearing-bore.

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