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  2. Shim (spacer) - Wikipedia

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    For example, shims are inserted into or under bucket tappets to control valve clearances. Clearance is adjusted by changing the thickness of the shim. In assembly and weld fixtures precision metal shims are used between two parts so that the final production parts are created within the product drawing's specified tolerances. [2]

  3. Ladle (metallurgy) - Wikipedia

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    In metallurgy, a ladle is a bucket-shaped container or vessel used to transport and pour out molten metals. [1] Ladles are often used in foundries and range in size from small hand-carried vessels that resemble a kitchen ladle and hold 20 kilograms (44 lb) to large steelmill ladles that hold up to 300 tonnes (295 long tons; 331 short tons).

  4. Rat torture - Wikipedia

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    He places a rat on the detective's stomach and encapsulates it inside a metal bucket. He then begins to heat the bucket using a blow torch to cause the rat stress, prompting it to try to escape. With no alternative, the rat starts to scratch the detective's stomach as it tries to burrow to escape the increasing heat inside the bucket.

  5. Bucket - Wikipedia

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    Buckets shaped like castles often used as children's toys to shape and carry sand on a beach or in a sandpit; Buckets in special shapes such as cast iron buckets or smelting buckets to hold liquid metal at high temperatures; Though not always bucket shaped, lunch boxes are sometimes known as lunch pails or a lunch bucket. Buckets can be ...

  6. Watering can - Wikipedia

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    Assorted watering cans made of metal. A watering can (or watering pot or watering jug) is a portable container, usually with a handle and a funnel, used to water plants by hand. It has been in use since at least A.D. 79 and has since seen many improvements in design. Apart from watering plants, it has varied uses, as it is a fairly versatile tool.

  7. Washtub bass - Wikipedia

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    A small washtub bass being played. The washtub bass, or gutbucket, is a stringed instrument used in American folk music that uses a metal washtub as a resonator. Although it is possible for a washtub bass to have four or more strings and tuning pegs, traditional washtub basses have a single string whose pitch is adjusted by pushing or pulling on a staff or stick to change the tension.

  8. Billycan - Wikipedia

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    A billycan is an Australian term for a lightweight cooking pot in the form of a metal bucket [1] [2] [3] commonly used for boiling water, making tea/coffee or cooking over a campfire [4] or to carry water. [3] It is commonly known simply as a billy, or occasionally as a billy can (billy tin or billy pot in Canada).

  9. Pail (container) - Wikipedia

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    Three gallon plastic pail of paint with screw closure Steel pail of concentrated pesticide Open-head plastic pails being reused to carry other items. In technical usage in the shipping industry, a pail is a type of cylindrical shipping container with a capacity of about 3 to 50 litres (1 to 13 US gal).