emery cloth
Americannoun
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Should you want to polish metal, you’d do well to work with emery cloth.
From Seattle Times ● Aug. 28, 2023
If, then, the surface is narrow, so that there is no opportunity to move the emery cloth endways on the work, emery paper should be used.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Rose, Joshua
Steel rolls should be rubbed with one-twenty emery cloth once a year, with a little oil.
From Instruction book on ring spinning by Lincoln, Francis L.
After drying they are susceptible of a fine polish, emery cloth being usually employed, and the final "finish" is given to the material with gum arabic and oil.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 598, June 18, 1887 by Various
The strip of emery cloth is laid on to one set of the studs, and the file, as it is called, closed, which fixes the strip on one side.
From Burroughs' Encyclopaedia of Astounding Facts and Useful Information, 1889 by Burroughs, Barkham
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