mandrel

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  1. noun A spindle or an axle used to secure or support material being machined or milled.
  2. noun A metal rod or bar around which material, such as metal or glass, may be shaped.
  3. noun A shaft on which a working tool is mounted, as in a dental drill.

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  • U.S. Steel Tubular Products Inc., a subsidiary of United States Steel Corporation, announced January 5 that it will exit the drawn-over-mandrel (DOM) tubular products business and close the DOM lines at its Texas Operations Division in Lone Star, Texas. —  Reliable Plant Magazine
  • A mandrel is a spindle or metal shaft around which other parts rotate. —  Total WonKerr
  • Equipment employing one mandrel is able to satisfy small - as well as medium-production rates using one circular, rotating blade on one mandrel to cut logs having an OD of 250-600 mm.
  • Four-mandrel systems are able to cut (using one big blade or two over-imposed smaller blades) two logs simultaneously one above the other, while the other two mandrels are in loading / unloading operation.
  • These rewound logs are unloaded in a temporary chute and automatically conveyed to the five-mandrel automatic lathe slitter.
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  1. Possibly alteration of French mandrin, lathe, from Provençal mandre, axle, crank, from Old Provençal, beam of a balance, from Latin mamphur, bow-drill, perhaps from Oscan.

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  1. from mandrel, n.
 

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/ˈmændrɛl/
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