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  • The shaft guide of the machine table can be arrested by means of a set-screw.

    2. Assembly of a Routing Machine Gnter Hanisch 1993

  • The required contact pressure will be achieved by tightening the set-screw.

    5. Fundamentals of installation engineering Werner Boschitsch 1991

  • There was a flat square top to the tripod with a set-screw proud in the center to take the camera and I had put a cloth pad over it with elastic bands.

    The 9th Directive Hall, Adam 1966

  • A recent improvement in jack -, smooth -, and fore-planes consists of an adjustable frog, by means of which the throat can be narrowed or widened at will by means of a set-screw in the rear of the frog without removing the clamp and cutter.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • Stanley "bed rock" plane, it can be set by a set-screw at the rear of the frog.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • If a slide rest is not available, a hinged board, carrying a bit of iron, may (see Fig. 45) be arranged so as to turn about its hinge at the back of the lathe; and it may be screwed up readily enough by passing a long set-screw through the front edge, so that the point of the screw bears upon the lathe bed.

    On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

  • For this end the course of the latter is made variable by means of the piece, _f_, adjusted by set-screw in the interior of the disk, F (Figs. 3 and 7), and tapped for the reception of a screw terminated by a milled button,

    Scientific American Supplement, No. 611, September 17, 1887 Various

  • There are two chief adjustments in the Bailey iron plane: the brass set-screw, see 8 in Fig. 101, which regulates the depth of the cut, and the lever, 9, which moves the cutter sidewise so that it may be made to cut evenly.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • The _marking-gage_, Fig. 211, consists of a head or block sliding on a beam or bar, to which it is fixed by means of a set-screw.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

  • Then, by turning the plane sole upward and glancing down it, the proper adjustments with the brass set-screw and lateral adjustment lever are made.

    Handwork in Wood William Noyes

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