emery cloth
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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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
The stylet should have any rough places smoothed with fine emery cloth and its blades carefully inspected; the parts are then oiled and reassembled.
From Bronchoscopy and Esophagoscopy A Manual of Peroral Endoscopy and Laryngeal Surgery by Jackson, Chevalier
Or, apply turpentine or kerosene, and after allowing to stand over night, clean with emery cloth.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough
The cylinder and valve tube A should be flattened by filing and rubbing on emery cloth, so that they may bed snugly against one another and give a good holding surface for the solder.
From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald
By using emery cloth, and wrapping it around the bearing portion, and changing it continually, while drawingp.
From Practical Mechanics for Boys by Zerbe, James Slough
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