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
When the magnet has been annealed, its legs should be polished with a piece of emery cloth, and the ends filed up level and smooth.
From Electric Bells and All About Them A Practical Book for Practical Men by S. R. Bottone
Next comes fine emery cloth to smooth down and remove the file marks.
From Modern Machine-Shop Practice, Volumes I and II by Joshua Rose
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 Archibald Williams
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 Joshua Rose
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