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  2. Tie exchanger - Wikipedia

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    A tie exchanger (also known as a TKO for Tie Knock Out, or by various combinations of tie exchanger, extractor, replacer, or inserter) is a self-propelled railroad maintenance of way vehicle that removes old railroad ties (also known as sleepers) from tracks and inserts new ones. By using mechanical and hydraulic force, a tie extractor/inserter ...

  3. Extractor (firearms) - Wikipedia

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    An extractor also performs the function of an ejector in revolvers. When the striking force applied to the ejector rod is hard and fast enough, the extractor will typically eject the empty case(s) from the cylinder. Some break-action shotguns are also designed to eject empty shells completely out of the chamber when the barrel is opened.

  4. Bore evacuator - Wikipedia

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    Animated sequence of how a bore evacuator works. A bore evacuator. A bore evacuator or fume extractor is a device which removes lingering gases and airborne residues from the barrel of an armored fighting vehicle's gun after firing, particularly in tanks and self-propelled guns.

  5. Screw extractor - Wikipedia

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    A screw extractor held in a tap wrench. A screw extractor is a tool for removing broken or seized screws.There are two types: one has a spiral flute structure, commonly called an easy out after the trademarked name EZ-Out; [clarification needed] the other has a straight flute structure.

  6. Special Patrol Insertion/Extraction - Wikipedia

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    The Special Personnel Insertion/Extraction was first designed by United States Marines of 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, the Marine division's 1st Reconnaissance Battalion, and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing riggers. In 1969 they created and actively used several versions of the SPIE in combat before it was officially recommended to be tested.

  7. Overloading - Wikipedia

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    The term overloading may refer to: Function overloading , a software engineering process whereby multiple functions of different types are defined with the same name Operator overloading , a software engineering process whereby operators (e.g. + or - ) are treated as polymorphic functions having different behaviors depending on the types of ...

  8. Mechanical overload - Wikipedia

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    The failure or fracture of a product or component as a result of a single event is known as mechanical overload. It is a common failure mode . The terms are used in forensic engineering and structural engineering when analysing product failure.

  9. Mixer-settler - Wikipedia

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    4 stage battery of mixer-settlers for counter-current extraction. Industrial mixer settlers are commonly used in the copper, nickel, uranium, lanthanide, and cobalt hydrometallurgy industries, when solvent extraction processes are applied. They are also used in the Nuclear reprocessing field to separate and purify primarily Uranium and ...