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
When a grooved mandrel is used, its diameter should be slightly less than the required diameter of spring, as when released the coils expand in diameter.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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 Joshua Rose
By means of suitable mechanism, this mandrel is rotated to feed the circular circumference of the cross-head jaws to the cut, the slider b remaining in a fixed position upon the bed m.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
