This is an excellent improvement, because much time is often lost in stopping the lathe while running at a high velocity, or when work of large diameter is being turned.
Wood turners sometimes have their lathes so made that the headstock can be turned end for end on the lathe shears, so that the face plate may project beyond the bed, enabling it to turn work of large diameter.
The front bearing of the live spindle is made of large diameter to give rigidity, and the usual collar for the face plate to screw against is thus dispensed with.
This enables the gap in the lower shears to be left open to receive work of large diameter, and has the advantage that the gap need be opened no more than is necessary to receive the required length of work.
Should the pit be of large diameter, then the cylinders must be cast in segments of 3, 4, or more pieces, joined together with inside vertical flanges, well jointed with oakum and white lead.
The tubes for conveying the gas should be of large diameter, if they be plunged into the saline solution, because the crystallization which takes place in it is apt to choke them up.
Relating to a system for transmitting power to a distance by means of swiftly moving ropes or cables driving grooved pulleys of large diameter.
Borings of large diameter, for mines or other shafts, are also sunk by means of the same description of boring tools, only considerably increased in size, extending up to as much as 14 feet diameter.
This windlass serves for hoisting the spindle or drill, and is of a large diameter, in order to prevent short bends in the iron, which would soon make it brittle.
In the construction of this machine it will be seen that the great desideratum of all earth boring has been well kept in view; namely, to bore-holes of large diameter to great depths with rapidity and safety.
The valve installation shown at C is somewhat unusual, though it provides for the use of valves of large diameter.
In both piston types a large diameter, heat treated, Chrome nickel steel wrist-pin is provided, assembled in such a way as to assist the circular rib between the wrist-pin bosses to keep the piston from being distorted from the explosions.
The valve-stems are of large diameter, as owing to positive control, there is no necessity of lightening this part in an unusual degree.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "large diameter" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
