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Examples of adapters include one end BSP threaded with the other NPT threaded, and one end threaded with the other a plain socket for brazing. A coupling whose ends use the same connection method but are of different sizes is called a reducing coupling or reducer. An example is a 3/4" NPT to 1/2" NPT coupling.
A socket wrench (or socket spanner) is a type of spanner (or wrench [1] in North American English) that uses a closed socket format, rather than a typical open wrench/spanner to turn a fastener, typically in the form of a nut or bolt. [2] The most prevalent form is the ratcheting socket wrench, often informally called a ratchet.
A reducer reduces the pipe size from a larger to a smaller bore (inner diameter). Alternatively, reducer may refer to any fitting which causes a change in pipe diameter. [15] This change may be intended to meet hydraulic flow requirements of the system or adapt to existing piping of a different size. The reduction length is usually equal to the ...
An adjustable spanner (UK and most other English-speaking countries), also called a shifting spanner (Australia and New Zealand) [1] or adjustable wrench (US and Canada), [a] is any of various styles of spanner (wrench) with a movable jaw, allowing it to be used with different sizes of fastener head (nut, bolt, etc.) rather than just one fastener size, as with a conventional fixed spanner.
Strap-type oil-filter wrench. A ratchet is used to turn it. Strap-type oil-filter wrench. This one has a handle built in. Socket-type oil-filter wrench. It fits over the end of the filter and is turned with a ratchet. It is made of stamped steel. An oil-filter wrench is a tool for removing spin-on type oil filters.
Scharfenberg coupler on a Southeastern Class 395 Video of ICE T coupling at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof. A coupling or coupler is a mechanism, typically located at each end of a rail vehicle, that connects them together to form a train.
The 8×68mm S case has functioned as the parent case for the .375 Hölderlin (9.5×68mm), which is essentially a 9.53 mm (.375 caliber) necked-up version of the 8×68mm S. The wildcat status of the .375 Hölderlin ended in 2007 when it got C.I.P. certified and became an officially registered and sanctioned under the 375 Hölderlin designation ...
The 10.75×68mm Mauser was introduced by Mauser in the early 1920s and chambered in their pre-World War II magnum sporting rifles. [1]The 10.75×68mm Mauser was a popular big-game cartridge with African and Indian hunters; it was used successfully on all dangerous game species up to and including elephants, although many experienced hunters considered it unsuitable for the latter.