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

Indeed, if these holes f have been accurately bored, a neatly fitting mandrel passed through them should hold the side frames true.

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

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

The lead is cast on and turned upon the mandrel, the metal in the flute c driving the lead.

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