The wood is very strong and preferred to that of the white elm for building-purposes, although the latter is considered the best native wood for hubs of wheels.
In our mind's eye we saw ourselves stuck up to the hubs in yellow clay from which it would require the pulling power of a locomotive to release us.
Then suddenly the car began to go down hill very rapidly, and at the bottom there was a grand splash, and we found ourselves up to the wheel hubs in water.
Immediately after completing road test, feel front and rear brake drums and wheel hubs for overheating.
If vehicle has been operated in water, wheel hubs submerged, apply hub greasing service immediately afterward (or soon as situation permits).
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Sweet birch is largely employed for various parts of vehicle manufacture, particularly for wagon hubs and frames of automobiles.
Small amounts are made into policemen's clubs, rake teeth, hubs for buggy wheels, ladder rungs, and tool handles.
It is better for hubs for large wagons, and that is a very important use for this elm.
Its toughness qualifies it for wagon hubs, but it is sometimes objected to because its softness causes the mortises to wear larger where the spokes are inserted, and the wheel does not stand as well as when the hubs are of good oak.
Hubs are made of it for horse-drawn vehicles, and its hardness gives long wear where the spokes are inserted.
I remember well the black mucky mud we rode through, the wheels sinking in to the hubs first on one side then the other.
When we came through Chicago, the mud was up to the hubs everywhere.
Whittle the hub ends of the spokes to fit the holes in the spool hubs (Figs.
These great wheels would go safely wherever oxen could draw them, many of theirhubs being three feet from the ground.
An old carriage painter advises this treatment in order to cause the paint and color to dry over the afflicted parts: First give the hubs a wash with gasoline or benzine, working the fluid well into the cracks.
So far over toward the rocky wall was it, in fact, that its hubs almost scraped it.
An ominous scraping sound was audible for an instant as the hubs of the stage and the auto's tonneau came in contact.
The floor of it was paved with stone, and at different distances up the sides could be seen the marks made by the hubs of wheels in former ages, when the roadway was at a higher level than it is now.
High up on the sides of it, at different distances, you can see the marks made by the hubs of the wheels, as they rubbed against the rocks, at the different levels of the road way, in ancient times.
The natural rock is so soft that the wheel hubs cut into it very easily.
In Figure 193 there are hubs (on both sides of the link) of unequal height, hence a centre line is necessary in both views, and from this line all measurements should be marked.
Pencilling for a link, having the hubs on one side only, 145.
There is a hole through each band on the outer ends of the hubs to pass the linchpin through so that before taking off a wheel to oil the journal it must first be turned so the hole comes directly over the linchpin.
There are iron hub-bands on both ends of the hubs which project several inches beyond the wood.
The axle is bent down near the hubs at right angles and carried across to support the floor of the cart box about one foot from the ground.
The wheels run behind this bar so the hubs do not project to catch against standing bags or door frames.
The hubs held narrow rings instead of skeins, but they wore for years.
Defn: Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby.
North America (Ulmus Americana), the timber of which is much used for hubs of wheels, and for other purposes.
There is a hole throughout the length of the inside hubs D and D', which is continued through the spindle of the governor, and contains the rod (r) that connects the cam with the governor.
It is the best available wood for making wagon wheel hubs and is also used largely for baskets and barrels.
The adjustable turning tool E is used for turning the outside of gear blanks, pulley hubs or the rims of small pulleys.
The pressure required in assembling a forced fit will also vary for cast hubs of the same size, if they are not uniform in hardness.
The castings E are for the wheel hubs of automobiles.
In laying, the start should be made at the street sewer with hubs of pipe toward the building.
If tile pipes without any hubs are used, some covering should be put around the joint to keep out the sand and still allow the water to find its way into the pipes.
The hubs and spindles of bicycles are cut from the solid bar by these automata; the tender has merely to feed them with metal, and they go on smoothing, shaping, and cutting off until the material is all used up.
The hubs of the links are bushed with bronze, and have a graphite "inlay," which makes them self-lubricating.
As the larger propellers having the brass hubs were thought to be excessively heavy, the hubs weighing 10.
The drums have a hub on either side, by which they are supported, these hubs being journaled on ball-bearings in the pedestals resting on the wooden framework.
Two steel automobile-wheel rims were therefore procured thirty-three inches in diameter, and these were provided with tangent spokes connected to special steel hubs fitted to the crank shaft of the engine.
All were now commingled, each striving to pass the hubs of his neighbors' wheels.
At the center, where the hubspass through them, there is provided a self-centering packing ring (Fig.
This packing is a close running fit on the hubs of the wheel and is provided with grooves (plainly shown in Fig.
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