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Some electric clippers such as the Wahl clipper, or the Andis clipper had a lever that could be moved back and forth to change the closeness from "000"which left the hair stubble length, or "1" which left the hair about one eighth of an inch. External attachments called "Guards" are attached to the clipper to make it cut from "1" to "4".
A manual beard clipper A hair clipper , often individually called the apparent plurale tantum hair clippers (in a similar way to scissors ), is a specialised tool used to cut human hair . Hair clippers work on the same principle as scissors , but are distinct from scissors themselves and razors .
Rather than using a pattern grinder to remove metal, keys may also be duplicated with a punch machine (the Curtis key clipper [1] is a recognised example). The key to be duplicated is measured for the depth of each notch with a gauge and then placed into a device with a numeric slider.
A variety of nail clippers; the clipper on the left is in the plier style; the centre and right clippers are in the compound lever style. A nail clipper (also called nail clippers, a nail trimmer, a nail cutter or nipper type) is a hand tool used to trim fingernails, toenails and hangnails.
The Clipper 23 is a recreational keelboat, built predominantly of fiberglass, with wood trim. It has a masthead sloop rig, a clipper bow, a reverse transom, a transom-hung, non-folding rudder controlled by a tiller and a retractable swing keel or twin keels. It displaces 2,025 lb (919 kg) and carries 500 lb (227 kg) of cast iron ballast. [1] [3]
On 23 June 1942, a contract was placed for 1,200 P-51As (NA-99s). The P-51A used the new Allison V-1710-81 engine, a development of the V-1710-39, driving a 10 ft 9 in (3.28 m)-diameter three-bladed Curtiss-Electric propeller. The armament was changed to four .50 in (12.7 mm) Browning machine guns, two in each wing, with a maximum of 350 rounds ...
Flying Cloud was the most famous of the clippers built by Donald McKay. She was known for her extremely close race with Hornet in 1853; for having a woman navigator, Eleanor Creesy , wife of Josiah Perkins Creesy who skippered Flying Cloud on two record-setting voyages from New York to San Francisco; and for sailing in the Australia and timber ...
Flying Fish was a California clipper ship of the extreme type launched in 1851. Her figurehead was a green and gold flying fish. At full sail she could set 8,250 yards of canvas. The ship was wrecked in 1858 while coming out of Fuzhou with a cargo of tea leaves. [2]