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
This is a somewhat tedious business, but emery cloth will do it.
From Things To Make by Williams, Archibald
The coarseness of emery cloth is indicated by letters and numbers corresponding to the grain number of loose emery.
From Turning and Boring A specialized treatise for machinists, students in the industrial and engineering schools, and apprentices, on turning and boring methods, etc. by Jones, Franklin D.
Q. Why should sandpaper be used to smooth commutator instead of emery cloth?
From The Traveling Engineers' Association To Improve The Locomotive Engine Service of American Railroads by Anonymous
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
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