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  2. Whipping knot - Wikipedia

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    Common whipping knot. A whipping knot or whipping is a binding of marline twine or whipcord around the end of a rope to prevent its natural tendency to fray.. Some whippings are finished cleanly, as by drawing the bitter end of the cordage beneath the whipping itself.

  3. Planishing - Wikipedia

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    A metal surface is finished by hammering it with a planishing panel hammer or slapper file against a shaped surface called a planishing stake that is held in a vise or a mounting hole in a blacksmith's beak anvil, [2] or against hand-held, shaped, metal tools that are known as dollies or anvils. The shape of the stake or dolly has to match the ...

  4. Bullwhip - Wikipedia

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    A whip will create a cracking sound without a cracker, but the sound will be much less loud. It has been suggested that the frayed end of the cracker may cause more fibers to move at supersonic speeds, increasing the likelihood of a sonic boom. It has also been found that when a whip is cracked, the cracker moves in an arc at the end of the whip.

  5. Rope splicing - Wikipedia

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    Back splice (or end splice) – A splice where the strands of the end of the rope are spliced directly back into the end without forming a loop. It is used to finish off the end of the rope to keep it from fraying. The end of the rope with the splice is about twice the thickness of the rest of the rope.

  6. Roller burnishing - Wikipedia

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    A Skive-Burnishing tool is used to achieve mirror surface finish in hydraulic cylinders. Roller burnishing is a surface finishing technique where hardened rollers cold work surface imperfections to reduce surface roughness. Roller burnishing differs from abrasive surface finishing techniques in that material is displaced rather than removed.

  7. Strap wrench - Wikipedia

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    A chain whip is a tool used to tighten and loosen threaded sprockets on a bicycle. It is called a chain whip because it has a short section of chain used to grip the sprocket. An alternative method to tighten sprockets is the rotafix method, which uses no tools.

  8. Countdown to Thanksgiving: 2 week timeline, tips, recipes to ...

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    From shopping lists and recipes to must-have kitchen tools and tips from food experts, this guide will help you whip up Thanksgiving like a pro. ... Janke said it can be whipped up now. Make your ...

  9. Honing (metalworking) - Wikipedia

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    Auto-gauging single-pass honing machine for precise finishing. A honing machine is a precision tool used in machining to improve the surface finish and dimensional accuracy of component. It operates by using abrasive honing tools, which rotate and reciprocate inside the components, typically a cylinder or bore.