lead screw
Americannoun
noun
Example Sentences
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Its lead screw, liberated from the child’s spinning top that inspired its designer, still works, sending the basket merrily whirring in its plastic bowl.
From Slate • Jun. 20, 2022
WHY: The incline lead screw can shear off, causing the foot pedals to drop unexpectedly, resulting in a fall hazard to the user.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 30, 2018
If now we multiply both terms of this 8⁄17 by 4 we get 32⁄68, and all we have to do is to put on the lead screw a wheel having 68 teeth.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
The construction of the bearings which carry the lead screw in the S. W. Putnam’s improved lathe is shown in Fig.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
It is obviously preferable, then, to place the lead screw at the back, where the carriage and shears wear the least.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
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