General technical terms

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General technical terms

gullets

Mechanical equipment; Technical Terms-General

The space between the tips of adjacent saw teeth. The space within the curved area between two sawblade teeth. Flex Back - Saw blade with hardened teeth but a relatively soft back.

chip

Mechanical equipment; General technical terms

A small fragment of material removed by each tooth on the cutting edge. A small usually thin and flat piece.

feed rate

Mechanical equipment; General technical terms

The linear travel of the workpiece into the blade, usually expressed in inches per minute. The pressure exerted by the workpiece against the cutting edge of a saw blade expressed in pounds.

nut and bolt

Mechanical equipment; General technical terms

Nut is a small piece of metal with a hole through the middle which is screwed onto a bolt to fasten things together. Meanwhile, bolt is a screw with a flat head and no point, for fastening things ...

It is a tool with a heavy part on a long handle, used for hitting nails into wood. However, the usage of this tool is quite various, i.e. not only for hitting nails into wood. We may use it to hit ...

nail

Mechanical equipment; General technical terms

Nail is defined as a thin pointed piece of metal with a flat top, which is hit into a surface with a hammer, for instance to join things together or to hang something on.