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

Rag polishing wheels are formed of disks of rags, either woollen or strong cotton, placed loosely side by side, and clamped together upon the mandrel at the centre only.

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

If the bore of the work is coned, and of too great a cone to permit the mandrel to be driven, and drive the work by friction, the cone mandrel shown in Fig.

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