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

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 small end of the mandrel is thus the standard of its size, and the wear of the collar gauge is in the same direction as that of the reamer.

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

These two carry a mandrel d, to which is fastened a face-plate d′ against which the work is chucked.

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