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The Upright Shaft is the main vertical shaft found in Smock and Tower mills. It is also found in some Post mills. It carries the Wallower at its top end, and a Great Spur Wheel at the bottom end. The Great Spur Wheel drives two or more Stone nuts. Wallower The Wallower is a driven gear at the top of the Upright Shaft in
A shaft bow is an element of horse harness that is attached to the front of the shafts of a horse-drawn vehicle and joins them by arching high above the neck of the horse. Use of the shaft bow is widespread in the area east of the Baltic Sea (Russia, Finland and the eastern Baltic countries). A shaft bow is also used in traditional harness in ...
Telescoping in mechanics describes the movement of one part sliding out from another, lengthening an object (such as a telescope or the lift arm of an aerial work platform) from its rest state. [1] In modern equipment this can be achieved by a hydraulics , but pulleys are generally used for simpler designs such as extendable ladders and amateur ...
A 76-centimetre (30 in) riding crop, with a 16-centimetre (6.3 in) US dollar bill to show scale. A crop, sometimes called a riding crop or hunting crop, is a short type of whip without a lash, used in horse riding, part of the family of tools known as riding aids.
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The 2024 Home and Community Preferences Survey, released Tuesday, surveyed over 3,000 American adults over the summer. Three-quarters of survey respondents want to stay in their own homes and ...
A drive shaft, driveshaft, driving shaft, tailshaft (Australian English), propeller shaft (prop shaft), or Cardan shaft (after Girolamo Cardano) is a component for transmitting mechanical power, torque, and rotation, usually used to connect other components of a drivetrain that cannot be connected directly because of distance or the need to ...
Epps, 51, also faced an internal affairs investigation into her overtime, sources said. Records showed that last year she worked nearly 1,627 hours of overtime on top of her regular shift, or an ...