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The List of United States Coast Guard Cutters is a listing of all cutters to have been commissioned by the United States Coast Guard during the history of that service. It is sorted by length down to 65', the minimum length of a USCG cutter.
A wedge socket termination is useful when the fitting needs to be replaced frequently. For example, if the end of a wire rope is in a high-wear region, the rope may be periodically trimmed, requiring the termination hardware to be removed and reapplied. An example of this is on the ends of the drag ropes on a dragline. The end loop of the wire ...
Wedge Group is a British multinational galvanising company which operates several facilities within the United Kingdom. [1] As of 2009 it was the largest galvanising company in the UK, and had wholly-owned operations in the United States and Italy. [1] It is headquartered in Willenhall. [2] The company was founded in the 1850s by Enoch Wedge ...
A clamp holder or clamp fastener is a piece of laboratory apparatus that is used to secure laboratory clamps, such as extension-type utility clamps, or other attachments to a retort stand or lab frame. [1] The material can be made up of brass, cast iron, stainless steel, aluminium or nickel-plated zinc. [2]
Upper row: F-clamp or bar clamp, one-handed bar clamp ("Quick Grip"), wooden handscrew; Lower row : spring clamp, C-clamp (G-clamp ), wooden cam clamp A clamp is a fastening device used to hold or secure objects tightly together to prevent movement or separation through the application of inward pressure .
A C-clamp or G-clamp or G-cramp is a type of clamp device typically used to hold a wood or metal workpiece, and often used in, but are not limited to, carpentry and welding. . Often believed that these clamps are called "C" clamps because of their C-shaped frame, or also often called C-clamps or G-clamps [1] because including the screw part, they are shaped like an uppercase lette
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A wedge will bind when the wedge included angle is less than the arctangent of the coefficient of friction between the wedge and the material. Therefore, in an elastic material such as wood, friction may bind a narrow wedge more easily than a wide one. This is why the head of a splitting maul has a much wider angle than that of an axe.