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

A small pulley may be turned on a mandrel driven by a dog, which is the truest method of turning, because the rim is in this case strained by the pressure of the cut only.

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

At k is a cone mandrel such as has been described with reference to lathe work upon which is chucked a cross-head c.

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