enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Portage Glacier Highway - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portage_Glacier_Highway

    The floor of the tunnel is constructed of 1,800 texturized concrete panels, each 7.5 by 8 feet (2.29 by 2.44 m), with the railroad tracks sunken slightly below the road surface. [15] The interior is exposed rock, and contains several "safe-houses", which are small buildings that are used in case of severe earthquakes, vehicle fires, or other ...

  3. Hole saw - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hole_saw

    Tungsten carbide hole saw with arbor A 52 mm (2.0 in) hole saw with pilot bit A 115 mm (4.5 in) diamond hole saw. A hole saw (also styled holesaw), also known as a hole cutter, [1] is a saw blade of annular (ring) shape, whose annular kerf creates a hole in the workpiece without having to cut up the core material.

  4. Maynard Mountain - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maynard_Mountain

    Maynard Mountain is a 4,137-foot (1,261 m) mountain summit located in the Chugach Mountains, in the U.S. state of Alaska.The peak is situated in Chugach National Forest, 3 mi (5 km) northwest of Whittier, Alaska, at the isthmus of the Kenai Peninsula, where the Chugach Mountains meet the Kenai Mountains.

  5. Whittier, Alaska - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Whittier,_Alaska

    Whittier is a city at the head of the Passage Canal in the U.S. state of Alaska, about 58 miles (93 km) southeast of Anchorage. [4] The city is within the Chugach Census Area, one of the two entities established in 2019 when the former Valdez–Cordova Census Area was dissolved. [5]

  6. Annular cutter - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annular_cutter

    A tungsten carbide tipped (TCT) and high-speed steel (HSS) annular cutter (also known as a "core drill" or "hole saw"). An annular cutter (also called a core drill, core cutter, broach cutter, trepanning drill, hole saw, or cup-type cutter) is a form of core drill used to create holes in metal.

  7. Golden West Airlines Flight 261 - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_West_Airlines...

    Golden West Airlines Flight 261, a de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter, [1] [2] collided with a Cessna 150 (N11421), owned by CessnAir Aviation, Inc., near Whittier, California. The accident occurred on January 9, 1975, at approximately 4:07 p.m. PST, while the Sun was just 9 degrees above the western horizon, directly into the eyes of the ...

  8. Hobby tunneling - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hobby_tunneling

    Tunnels in the complex dug by Baldassare Forestiere The accidental discovery of one of Harrison Dyar's tunnels in 1924. Hobby tunneling is tunnel construction as a pastime. [1] [2] Usually, hobby tunnelers dig their tunnels by hand, using little equipment, and some can spend years or even decades to achieve any degree of completion. [2]

  9. Pilot hole - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilot_hole

    A pilot hole may be drilled the full extent of the final hole, or may only be a portion of the final depth. The pilot drill may be a standard twist drill, another type of drill bit appropriate for the material, or, when the primary purpose is precisely locating a hole, may be made with a short, stiff center drill.