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
A bit of the wire of proper length is first doubled and then by a special contrivance the two ends are bent around a mandrel so as to form an insertion point or loop.
From Directions for Collecting and Preserving Insects by C. V. Riley
At a is a flat place to receive the set-screw of the driver or lathe dog, and at b a flat place upon which the diameter of the mandrel is marked.
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
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