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mandrel

Usually tapered or cylindrical axle, spindle, or arbor inserted into a hole in a piece of work to support it during machining

EntityQ136706

Also known as mandril · arbor

Subclass of: clamp
, mechanism

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A mandrel, mandril or arbor is a tapered tool against which material can be forged, pressed, stretched or shaped, or a flanged or tapered or threaded bar that grips a workpiece to be machined in a lathe. A flanged mandrel is a parallel bar of a specific diameter with an integral flange towards one end, and threaded at the opposite end. Work is gripped between the flange and a nut on the thread. A tapered mandrel has a taper of approximately 0.005 inches per foot and is designed to hold work by being driven into an accurate hole on the work, gripping the work by friction. A threaded mandrel may have a male or female thread, and work which has an opposing thread is screwed onto the mandrel.

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Different from: spindle
chuck
Q58336194
mandrill
Mandrell

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