Crossword clues for mandrel
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"miner's pick," 1510s, of unknown origin; perhaps borrowed from French mandrin, itself of unknown origin. Also applied from 17c. to parts of a lathe or a circular saw.
Wiktionary
n. 1 An object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it. 2 A tool or component of a tool that grip or clamp something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A mandrel (; also mandril or arbor) is one of the following:
- an object used to shape machined, or electroformed, work;
- a tool component that grips or clamps materials to be machined;
- a tool component that can be used to grip other moving tool components.
A mandrel is an object used to shape machined work, a tool component that grips or clamps materials to be machined, or a tool component that can be used to grip other moving tool components
Mandrel may also refer to:
- Mandrel (bending), a device inserted into a pipe or tube to keep it from collapsing during bending
- Mandrel (catheter), the metal guide for flexible catheters
- Mandrel (electronics) was the code-name of a WWII electronic counter-measure used by the RAF.
- Mandrel Screen, a patrol line of Royal Air Force aircraft employing the Mandrel jammer during World War II
- Mandrel wrapping, a technique used in multimode fiberoptics
- Operation Mandrel, a series of 53 American nuclear tests in 1969 and 1970
Usage examples of "mandrel".
This continuation of noise, this leaning on the button was the buzzer style of Herbert Mandrel, the tenant in 4A.
But gradually I learned to feel the proper rotation of the mandrel, guess at the chill marks when I touched a bead too long to my marver, the heat-proof working surface.
My journal filled with notes of color mixes and mandrel diameter rather than the politics of Church and State.
This device had been used only intermittently in recent months because it had been feared that German night fighters were homing in to the Mandrel impulses.
He followed with another tap to the hot set and a reforming on the special mandrel that sat in the hardie hole.
The teeth were very deep, and the clay was built up around turned brass mandrels to assure concentric bearings.
Beadmakers formed their amazing little works of art on mandrels at their own little benchesor spun out long, thin tubes of colored glass to be chopped into bits and sand-polished in big drums when cool.
At first my efforts were clumsy, lopsided blobs that clung perversely to the mandrels, the fine metal rods that kept a hole in the middle.
Power Lathes, Drill Presses, Scrolls, Circular and Band Saws, Saw Attachments, Chucks, Mandrels, Twist Drills, Dogs, Calipers, etc.
The bags are also to be tried on mandrels, or formers, made according to the dimensions given on the preceding page.
All bottom courses were laid to a string, in practically perfect line and grade, and all joints were tested with mandrels which were in all openings, and pulled forward as each piece of conduit was laid.
The same reference also explains the 1917 Danner process for mechanically drawing tubing: let a ribbon of glass entwine itself around a slowly rotating mandrel, and then pull it off.
I thought you could twist the bar around an iron mandrel, red-hot, and then hammer-weld it.
But he sees tongs shaped almost like serpents, and there are two large cone mandrels on huge weighted bases.
The teeth were very deep, and the clay was built up around turned brass mandrels to assure concentric bearings.