Appletons' cyclopaedia of applied mechanics: a dictionary of mechanical engineering and the mechanical arts (1880)
D. Appleton and Company, Benjamin, Park, 1849-1922 · New York, D. Appleton · leaf 700
r hollow and cutting a fine slit in a portion of its length,so that by inserting a small wedge in the slit the dkimeter of the reamer is increased. It is to benoted, however, that the reamer is by this means altered from a round to an oval shape; but it willproduce fair work if carefully used. In… … is used for a succession of cuts. First it is inserted without the wood, then with the wood, then witha piece of paper placed beneath the wood, and so on until the reaming is finished, the reamer beingrevolved very rapidly. 2 he Shell-Reamer is a cylindrical reamer having a hole bored through the…
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