mandrel
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈmæn.dɹəl/
mandrel (plural mandrels)
- A round object used as an aid for shaping a material, e.g. shaping or enlarging a ring, or bending or enlarging a pipe without creasing or kinking it.
- A tool or component of a tool that guides, grips or clamps something, such as a workpiece to be machined, a machining tool or a part while it is moved.
- 1920, Lester Gray French, Machinery, Volume 26, page 491 ↗,
- This socket forms the starting point of the piercing operation, enabling the mandrel to center itself on the work.
- 1961, Robert Sprenkle, David Ledet, The Art of Oboe Playing, page 46 ↗,
- When inserted into the staple, the outside of the mandrel should fit the inside of the staple exactly.
- 1920, Lester Gray French, Machinery, Volume 26, page 491 ↗,
- German: Dorn, Spreizdorn, Aufweitdorn, Drehstift, Ringriegel
- Italian: allargatubi
- Portuguese: mandril
- Russian: опра́вка
- German: Spindel, Dorn, Stützdorn, Spanndorn, Montagedorn, Mandrell, Drehstift, Stiftdorn, Scheibenträger
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