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  2. Lewis (lifting appliance) - Wikipedia

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    To bed a stone using a lewis, the stone is placed on dunnage laid flat with enough clearance for a mortar bed to be placed beneath it. The safety straps are removed, the stone is lifted using the lewis alone, and the dunnage removed with fingers clear. The stone is then lowered onto the mortar bed, and positioned with sharp taps from a rubber ...

  3. Building blocks (toy) - Wikipedia

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    Compared to most ceramic or wooden kits, constructions can be created that can also withstand (to a limited extent) tensile forces.Compared to metal building sets or de:Metallbaukasten, however, building block sets have only weak cohesiveness, since they usually do not require special connectors; however, cohesiveness can be increased by form-fitting cross-connections.

  4. Parallel (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Parallels of different sizes can be used to support a workpiece that doesn't have a flat surface underneath, or to give clearance when drilling in a vise to stop the drill damaging the vise. Parallels can also be used if the vise itself has a damaged face, which could cause the workpiece to be held insecurely.

  5. Drill - Wikipedia

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    A popular use of hand-held power drills is to set screws into wood, through the use of screwdriver bits. Drills optimized for this purpose have a clutch to avoid damaging the slots on the screw head. Pistol-grip drill – the most common hand-held power drill type. Right-angle drill – used to drill or drive screws in tight spaces.

  6. Rotary table (drilling rig) - Wikipedia

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    A rotary table is a mechanical device on a drilling rig that provides clockwise (as viewed from above) rotational force to the drill string to facilitate the process of drilling a borehole. Rotary speed is the number of times the rotary table makes one full revolution in one minute (rpm).

  7. Mr. Driller Online - Wikipedia

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    The objective of Mr. Driller Online is to drill to the bottom of a long, vertical pit filled with blocks of varying colors. The player controls Susumu (or one of his friends) and can move left or right, fall infinitely, and climb single blocks if there are no other blocks on top of them. The player can also drill in any direction.

  8. Block-stacking problem - Wikipedia

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    The first nine blocks in the solution to the single-wide block-stacking problem with the overhangs indicated. In statics, the block-stacking problem (sometimes known as The Leaning Tower of Lire (Johnson 1955), also the book-stacking problem, or a number of other similar terms) is a puzzle concerning the stacking of blocks at the edge of a table.

  9. Top drive - Wikipedia

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    The top drive allows the drilling rig to drill the longer section of a stand of drill pipe in one operation. [1] A rotary table type rig can only drill 30-foot (9.1 m) (single drill pipe) sections of drill pipe whereas a top drive can drill 60–90-foot (18–27 m) stands (double and triple drill pipe respectively, a triple being three joints of drillpipe screwed together), depending on the ...