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Two other mechanics installed a new control�but failed to retighten the cable connection or refix the safety wires.

From Time Magazine Archive

Release the vice and refix the wood so that it leans in exactly the opposite direction to Fig.

From Woodwork Joints How they are Set Out, How Made and Where Used. by Fairham, William

A quick end if it worked right, and a last chance to refix it if it didn't; yes, he . . . but here was the light ahead.

From Between the Lines by Cable, Boyd

She could manage this glass to the best advantage, through her father's teaching, and could take out the slide and clean the lenses, and even part the object-glass, and refix it as well as possible.

From Springhaven : a Tale of the Great War by Blackmore, R. D. (Richard Doddridge)

Engines, classification of,   rotative, definition of;   rotatory, definition of;   single acting, definition of;   double acting, definition of;   mode of erecting in a vessel;   how to refix if they have become loose.

From A Catechism of the Steam Engine by Bourne, John, C.E.