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alloy aluminium angle plate annealed anvil axis banjo plate bowl brass brazing British Standard Whitworth brittle case-hardening cast iron cast steel centre punch chalk chisel circle clamping clearance colour coolant cooling copper core box craft cutting edges cutting tool diameter drawing drill a hole drilling machine face-plate feed spindle flat flux fracture gear grip hammer blows handwheel hard hardened headstock joint lathe bed lathe spindle lathe tool lead screw length lever malleable marked METALWORK method mild steel moulding box notch number of threads obtained operations Parallel strip pattern piece of metal planishing possible produce proprietary rake red heat removed revolve rivet round bar sand school workshop scraping shape shown in Figure soft solder speed cone square inch surface gauge surface plate tailstock tap wrench taper teeth temperature tensile strength threads per inch tinplate tongs tons per square top slide waste metal wheel wire workpiece