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2. Hydraulic tappet - Wikipedia

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   Oil under constant pressure is supplied to the lifter via an oil channel, through a small hole in the lifter body. When the engine valve is closed (lifter in a neutral position), the lifter is free to fill with oil. As the camshaft lobe enters the lift phase of its travel, it compresses the lifter piston, and a check valve shuts the oil inlet ...

3. Dish drying cabinet - Wikipedia

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   An improvement to the design of the Almagov was patented by Tal Simhoni in 2012 for a dish drying cabinet installation kit. Simhoni produced a cut out template with a plurality of rigid vertical support members to include holes that receive fasteners for attaching the entire unit to the inside walls of any kitchen cabinet, without limiting the ...

4. Ground lift - Wikipedia

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   The ground lift switch eliminates unwanted hum and buzz by interrupting the ground loops between equipment, preventing current flow along the cable shield between two devices. The switch disconnects pin 1 on the XLR jack, which is connected to the braid or foil shield in the cable and acts as the ground point of the circuit.

5. Three-prong adaptor - Wikipedia

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   Bill Whitlock, president of Jensen Transformers, writes, "never, ever use devices such as 3 to 2-prong AC plug adapters, a.k.a. 'ground lifters', to solve a noise problem!" [ 5 ] Whitlock relates how an electrical fault in one device that is connected to its electricity source through an ungrounded cheater plug will result in dangerous, high ...

6. Lifestyle Lift - Wikipedia

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   Lifestyle Lift (stylized in uppercase in its logo) was a national facial cosmetic surgery practice with headquarters in Troy, Michigan, United States. The company's name in all caps is a trademarked brand name [ 1 ] used to market a particular type of facial surgery called the lifestyle lift.

7. Topping lift - Wikipedia

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   The topping lift indicated Topping lift on a US Yachts US 22 sailboat The topping lift (more rarely known as an uphaul ) is a line which applies upward force on a boom on a sailboat . Part of the running rigging , topping lifts are primarily used to hold a boom up when the sail is lowered. [ 1 ]

8. Ultrasonic thickness measurement - Wikipedia

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   In the field of industrial ultrasonic testing, ultrasonic thickness measurement (UTM) is a method of performing non-destructive measurement (gauging) of the local thickness of a solid element (typically made of metal, if using ultrasound testing for industrial purposes) based on the time taken by the ultrasound wave to return to the surface.

9. Tectonic uplift - Wikipedia

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   The uplift of these islands is the result of the movement of oceanic tectonic plates. Sunken islands or guyots with their coral reefs are the result of crustal subsidence as the oceanic plate carries the islands to deeper or lower oceanic crust areas.