solid-drawn

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In metal-working, drawn from hollow ingots, in which mandrels of constantly decreasing diameter are successively inserted, till both exterior and interior diameters are brought down to the required dimensions.

adjective Drawn out from a heated solid bar, as by a process of spiral rolling which first hollows the bar and then expands the cavity by forcing the bar over a pointed mandrel fixed in front of the rolls; -- said of a weldless tube.

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In the present chapter we will assume that the barrels of all the boilers described are made out of solid-drawn seamless copper tubing, which can be bought in all diameters up to 6 inches, and of any one of several thicknesses.

Things To Make Archibald Williams
As shown, the barrel is 8 inches long and 6 inches in outside diameter, and the central flue 1-1/2 inches across outside solid-drawn 1/16-inch tubing, flanged ends, and four 1/4-inch stays -- disposed as indicated in Fig. 80 (a) and (b) -- are used.

Things To Make Archibald Williams
To this same pipe there is attached a solid-drawn copper spiral heater or worm, L, which is fixed into the place or the material the temperature of which it is desired to indicate.

Scientific American Supplement, No. 530, February 27, 1886 Various
Then he reached down to the gun-case, took a solid-drawn cartridge, and slipped it into the breech of the '360 Express.

Life's Handicap Rudyard Kipling 1900
There is a brisk trade in ammunition for the breechloader, and so keen is the desire to secure and supplement the supply that solid-drawn brass cartridge-cases, which admit of being used over and over again, with boxes of caps and sets of reloading apparatus, are now in brisk demand.

Persia Revisited Thomas Edward Gordon 1873