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After the top of the barrel has been shaped, the coopers wrap cables around the base of the barrel and use a capstan to cinch up the base.
For every 30 inches of tape that zips by the heads in one second, the ATR capstan rotates just four times!
Sanders does not use intermediate supports as his yarder works on an endless running line that is fed around two capstan wheels.
The stern deck itself has a big capstan in the centre, with pairs of small bollards on either side.
Any rolling part can do it, but the major flutter-maker in your tape recorder is likely to be the capstan.
At the stern, a single capstan and chain hold the kedge anchor in place against the rear of the hull.
Forward of the rails is a large single bollard, or capstan, and various small deck fittings and valve openings that are home to tompot blennies.
The carpenter had turned the capstan just abaft the mainmast into a perfectly acceptable desk.
This placed him immediately in front of the yo-yo block and approximately 2 m from the capstan winch operator.
The delay time can be modulated so as to simulate a worn capstan or belt or to add a chorus effect to the echoes.
The capstan wheels pull the strands through the preforming apparatus to give them their helical shape.
Then, up to six capstan bars can be inserted into the holes of the capstan.
Micron-level tape tracking is reliably achieved using the phase servo motor of the capstan.
Near the seabed, an interesting feature is a large power capstan.
In one design, two or more horses walked in a circle on deck, turning a capstan amidships that was geared to a paddle wheel set between a pair of catamaran-like hulls.
Clean the tape heads, pinch roller and capstan with a soft cloth or cotton bud dampened in iso-propylalcohol or special tape head cleaner.
In 1859 a double trackway made it possible to hoist the supply whose capstan was powered by horses.
Speed of drawing in the load can be controlled by allowing partial slippage of the line around the capstan.
Mill centre of test specimens to a capstan shape, the milled portion being 1 cm. in diameter.
There was no communication between the operator of the capstan winch and the trawlerman immediately prior to the occurrence.
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The problem has been solved by the introduction of the capstan navigation or towage.
The gripes were now loosened, and the fall of one of the tackles was led to the capstan.
The hatchway was closed, and the order to man the capstan was given a third time.
The capstan is prevented from turning back by a pawl attached to its lower part, working in a circular ratchet on the base.
Jason's group, and the two others, shuffled into position and seated their bars, making a four spoked wheel out of the capstan.
That part of a capstan round which the messenger is wound, including the drumhead.
On the quarter-deck, by the side of the capstan, he found halyard and the drummer.
We forge the nickel for the pivot and capstan, and we silver-plate it ourselves.
The capstan is prevented from turning back by a pawl attached to its lower part and working in a circular ratchet on the base.
There is the creaking of a chain, and the loud tinkle as the check of the capstan falls into the ratchet.
Agatha, by a hash of lightning, saw for an instant two men straining at the door like sailors at a capstan.
The keeping the hove-in part of a cable or hawser clear of the capstan.
There was a capstan just abaft the mainmast, and here the men assembled.
Soon he was carefully swung inside the high bulwarks, and gently landed upon the capstan head.
He got round an old man's heart like a rope round a capstan.
And none of them attempted to cut your lasso from their capstan?
Then Captain Mayo heard the steady clanking of capstan pawls.
In the drumhead of a capstan, the holes receive the capstan-bars.
The messenger is brought to the capstan, or the cable to the windlass.
Working at the windlass or capstan with more than usual exertion.
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