Axles Sentence Examples

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  • From the lower flange of a suspended !; runway, made of a single I section, run wheels, from the axles of which the transporter is suspended.

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  • They serve the same function as axles on an automobile.

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  • Along with the pricing details mentioned above, you'll see the model number, the length and width, the number of axles and the weight of the machine - all on one printable page.

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  • Aside from your wheels and axles, which would require professional repairs, there are many small components to a towing system that you could very likely replace yourself if the need arises.

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  • There's an online, step-by-step guide to putting the axles into the wheel wells at Heelys.com, and also instructions on how to get those wheels out once you're done skating for the day.

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  • However, when lining up the wheels, you'll need to apply more pressure than you expect to ensure that the axles have clicked into place.

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  • Wisconsin lists legal vehicle weights based on the distance between axles.

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  • North Dakota publishes a weight chart of maximum legal loads based on the number of axles.

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  • California provides a chart of legal weights based on the axle distance and number of axles.

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  • The fundamental condition governing the design of all tractive machinery is that the wheels belonging to the axles to which torque is applied shall roll along the rails without slipping, and exert a tractive force on the train.

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  • Motors may be applied to every axle in the train, and their individual torques adjusted to values suitable to the weights naturally carried by the several axles.

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  • This perfection of distribution is practically attained in present-day practice by the multiple control system of operating an electric train, where motors are applied to a selected number of axles in the train, all of them being under the perfect control of the driver.

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  • In the first case all the driving is done on one or at most two axles, sufficient tractive force being obtained by coupling these axles when necessary to others carrying heavy loads.

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  • This would be distributed between three coupled axles giving an average of 1.38 tons per axle, though the distribution might not in practice be uniform, a larger proportion of the weight falling on the driving-axle.

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  • It is generally designed as a 4-2-2 engine, but some old types are still running with only three axles, the 2-2-2.

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  • There is a general increase in cylinder power, boiler pressure and weight, and in consequence in the number of coupled axles.

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  • When the service is frequent enough to give a good power factor continuously, the steam locomotive cannot compete with the electric motor for the purpose of quick acceleration, because the motors applied to the axles of a train may for a short time absorb power from the central station to an extent far in excess of anything which a locomotive boiler can supply.

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  • Later, when increased length became desirable, six wheels with Passenger g g three axles came into use; vehicles of this kind were carria es.

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  • The current required for it is generated by dynamos driven from the axles of the coaches.

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  • With electricity, power can be applied to as many axles in the train as desired, and so the whole weight of the train, with its load, may be utilized if necessary.

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  • Larger cars are usually dumped by means of rotating or swinging cradles, the car bodies being rigidly attached to the axles or trucks.

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  • The furrow wheels are placed on inclined axles, the plough beam being carried on swing links, operated by a hand lever when it is necessary to raise the plough out of the furrow.

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  • Chromium also, in comparatively small quantities, is taking its place as a constituent of steel axles and tires, and in the manufacture of tool-steel.

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  • The weights of engines and wagons are now greater, and in addition it is recognized that the concentration of the loading at the axles gives rise to greater straining action, especially in short bridges, than the same load uniformly distributed along the span.

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  • In dry seasons this will supply 6000 H.P., and for quite ten months in an ordinary year 14,000 H.P. The plant in 1902 consisted of five turbines, having horizontal axles, and each developing woo H.P. when running at 300 revolutions a minute.

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  • In 1905 Laconia ranked first among the cities of the state in the manufacture of hosiery and knit goods, and the value of these products for the year was 48.4% of the total value of the city's factory product; among its other manufactures are yarn, knitting machines, needles, sashes and blinds, axles, paper boxes, boats, gas and gasolene engines, and freight, passenger and electric cars.

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  • As an example of circular shifting may be cited the motion of the coupling rod, by which the parallel and equal cranks upon two or more axles of a locomotive engine are connected and made to rotate simultaneously.

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  • There are great iron and steel works, producing every kind of heavy goods used by railway and engineering works, such as boiler plates, rails, axles, tubes, bolts and nuts.

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  • It has a good water-power, and among its manufactures are wagons and carriages, axles, furniture, flour and electric signs.

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  • Axle configurations include all-wheel drive as well as single and tandem drive axle configurations include all-wheel drive as well as single and tandem drive axles (single and hub reduction ).

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  • I personally am allergic to ' new world orders ' the broken axles of which litter the trails of history.

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  • None of the stub axles I have prepared in this manner have failed.

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  • May 01 2004 The refurbished rear driving axles springs arrived during the week.

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  • The gear linking the two wheel axles is raised slightly above center line to achieve a correct mesh distance.

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  • Morris axles and brakes were used, special springs made, and racy Hartford friction dampers fitted at the rear.

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  • But then, his selection had more to do with his appreciation of greased palms than of greased palms than of greased locomotive axles.

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  • But then, his selection had more to do with his appreciation of greased palms than of greased locomotive axles.

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  • Activities from Inventor's Workshop link directly to the teaching of wheels and axles, gears, pulleys and cams.

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  • Mechanical energy may be developed in bulk at a central station conveniently situated with regard to a coal-field or a waterfall, and after transformation by means of electric generators into electric energy it may be transmitted to the locomotive and then by means of electric motors be retransformed into mechanical energy at the axles to which the motors are applied.

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  • The wheels are coupled, but the feature of the engine is that the couplingrods act merely to keep the high-pressure and low-pressure engines in phase with one another, very little demand being made upon them to transmit force except when one of the wheels begins to slip. In this arrangement the whole of the adhesive weight of the engine is used in the best possible manner, and the driving of the train is practically equally divided between two axles.

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  • Both load and speed have increased so much in connexion with passenger trains that it is necessary to divide the weight required for adhesion between three-coupled axles, and the type of engine gradually coming into use in England for heavy express traffic is a six-coupled engine with a leading bogie, with wheels which would have been considered small a few years ago for the speed at which the engine runs.

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  • Wheels creak on their axles as the cogs engage one another and the revolving pulleys whirr with the rapidity of their movement, but a neighboring wheel is as quiet and motionless as though it were prepared to remain so for a hundred years; but the moment comes when the lever catches it and obeying the impulse that wheel begins to creak and joins in the common motion the result and aim of which are beyond its ken.

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  • In whatever form energy is produced and distributed to the train it ultimately appears as mechanical energy applied to turn one or more axles against the resistance to their rotation imposed by the weight on the wheels and the motion of the train.

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  • The first railway carriages in England had four wheels with two axles, and this construction is still largely employed, especially for short-distance trains.

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  • If the energy supplied is distributed between several axles the relation becomes l l 2 3 w 3.

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