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  2. Drawbar (machine tool) - Wikipedia

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    The drawbar pull is an important component that allows the milling machine to keep the tool in place while it’s being used. The force from the drawbar pull supplied to the tool has to be just right because not enough force would cause the tool to wobble leading to inaccuracy, and too much force would apply excessive stress, leading to shorter tool life.

  3. Delta Machinery - Wikipedia

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    In 1945, Rockwell Manufacturing Company acquired Delta Machinery and renamed it the Delta Power Tool Division of Rockwell Manufacturing Company and continued to manufacture in Milwaukee. In 1966, Rockwell invented the world's first power miter saw. In 1981, Rockwell's power tool group was acquired by Pentair and re-branded Delta Machinery.

  4. Glossary of rail transport terms - Wikipedia

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    The weight on the driving wheels of a locomotive, which determines the frictional grip between wheels and rail, and hence the drawbar pull a locomotive can exert [5] Adjusting spring A heavy spiral spring or nest of springs used for controlling the side motion of a two-wheel radial trailing truck. [3] Adjusting spring case. Also Centering ...

  5. Road train - Wikipedia

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    In the case of B-triples in Western Australia, they are signed front and rear with "ROAD TRAIN" until they cross the WA/SA border where they are then signed with "LONG VEHICLE" in the front and rear. Converter dollies must have a sign affixed horizontally to the rearmost point, complying to the same conditions, reading "LONG VEHICLE".

  6. Road case - Wikipedia

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    The history of flight case design is based on an airplane parts packaging specification. It was designed by airline packaging engineers. The specification is ATA 300. [a] Category I cases are designed to withstand a minimum of 100 round trips, Category II containers a minimum of 10 round trips, and Category III containers 1 round trip as defined to also include the return of a replacement part.

  7. Pennsylvania Railroad class S1 - Wikipedia

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    In terms of drawbar horsepower, the S1 was 13% more powerful than the Big Boy, with 7,200 hp (5,400 kW) and 6,345 hp (4,731 kW) respectively. [citation needed] The large Belpaire firebox met the Pennsy's standards; its heating surface area included that supplied by seven American Arch circulators. Water passed through 5.5-inch horizontal tube ...

  8. B.O.T.A. tarot deck - Wikipedia

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    The BOTA Tarot (also spelled BOTA, B.o.t.A., or BotA) was created by Paul Foster Case, founder of Builders of the Adytum (BOTA), and artist Jessie Burns Parke.Although it is based upon, and closely resembles, Arthur Edward Waite's 1909 Rider-Waite deck, [1] Case changed what he said were mistakes or "blinds" on the part of Waite.

  9. Alexander Turney Stewart - Wikipedia

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    A. T. Stewart & Co. logo c. 1872. The store opened on September 1, 1823, just across from City Hall Park, north of Chambers Street on the opposite side of Broadway from where his later Marble Palace was to stand. Rented for $375 a year, it measured 12.5 feet wide by 30 feet deep, rather small by today's standards but average during the 19th ...