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  • A strong cross-head wind came up just in time for the top 10 on GC to take the start, and it seemed to have its greatest effect on Samuel Sanchez (Euskaltel-Euskadi).

    Contador withstands challenge from Schleck, defends yellow, as Cancellara wins Tour de France TT stage 2010

  • The edges tend to be sharper, so you can get in that last little bit of nook to get the torque you need, then finish it off with a bigger cross-head, or a pair of pliers.

    Remove A Stripped Screw With A Rubber Band | Lifehacker Australia 2010

  • Phillips/cross-head screwdriver required to insert batteries.

    Sega iFish 2006

  • The screwed rod is turned by a single cross-head bar providing two levers.

    Chapter 5 1995

  • The cross-head wrist pin being removable from the cross-head enables the upper end of the rod to have a solid end, since it can be passed into place in the crossed and the wrist pin inserted through the two.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • The guides for the cross-head are bolted to the frame, which enables them to be readily removed to be replaned when necessary.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • The segments that partly envelop the cross-head pin and crank-pin, and are section lined in two directions, producing crossing section lines, or small squares, show that the brasses are lined with babbitt metal, which is represented by this kind of cross-hatching.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • It has a cross-head at each end, one of which has a smooth hole through its axis to fit the staff, and the other is tapped to receive the screw in the end of it.

    Ordnance Instructions for the United States Navy. 1866. Fourth edition. United States. Navy Dept. Bureau of Ordnance

  • Figure 328 represents the cross-head, whose wrist pin is let into the cross-head cheeks, so that it may be removed to be turned up true.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

  • The cross-head pin, it will be observed, is tapered, and is drawn home in the cross-head by a bolt; the sides of the pin are flattened somewhat where the journal is, so that the pin may not wear oval, as it is apt to do, because of the pull and thrust strain of the rod brasses falling mainly upon the top and bottom of the journal, where the most wear therefore takes place.

    Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught Joshua Rose

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