The bolt that comes up through the cross-arm and taps into the base of the casting is 3/4-inch in diameter.
Make contacts to the taps by two rotary switches as shown in Fig.
If we want to do a real job we can bring each of these taps to a little stud and arrange a sliding or rotating contact with them.
It was long after taps when the last one left, but, almost to a man, they gathered at the club-room later to compare notes.
Talk and jeering laugh grew louder as potations followed on the heel-taps of their predecessors.
Taps that are revolved by machine tools may be given clearance because both the taps and the work are detained in line, hence the tap cannot wobble.
Taps for lead and similar soft metal are sometimes made with three flat sides instead of grooves.
The smallest tap is used first, and when it has tapped a certain distance, a larger one is inserted, and by continuing this interchange of taps and slightly varying the length of the taper, the work may be satisfactorily done.
This is an important advantage, because if the tops of the thread are from the wear of the dies and taps of too large or small diameter, respectively, the threads cannot fit on the sides.
The standard degree of taper for steam-pipe taps is 3/4 inch per foot of length, the taper being the same in the dies as on the taps.
In hand taps the position of the square at the head of the tap with relation to the cutting-edges is of consequence; thus, in Fig.
The nuts lie in a dish that contains water up to the level of the bottom of the nuts, the object being to prevent the taps from getting hot and therefore expanding in diameter.
It may be pointed out, however, that from the form in which the chasers or solid dies for bolt machines, and also that in which taps are made, the finishing points of the teeth are greatly relieved of cutting duty, as is shown in Figs.
Another form of free cutting tap especially applicable to taps of large diameter has been designed by Professor Sweet.
Do you soften your taps after roughing them out in the lathe?
Taps for other metal have also been made of half-round section.
We have repeatedly tried annealing or softening taps that were of long or short pitch caused by tempering, and invariably found them about the same as before the annealing.
Suppose you were ordering a set of taps for use in the engine room, what precautions would you be obliged to take as to the shape of the thread in order to get proper taps?
He could tell this from the hammering taps of his present headache that were born of the travail of truly chaotic dreams.
He greets the grumpy checkroom tyrant like a friend and brother, and has just slipped him a cigar when a husky-built square-jawed gent steps up behind and taps Alvin familiar on the shoulder.
A couple of minutes she stands there, never makin' a crack or givin' any sign, except that the toe of one slipper taps the rug restless.
In that section of the White Light district too you can call up plenty of help by a few taps from the locust.
Solder the screw-block of the steam-tap inside over the hole marked F, and solder on the inside the two blocks of the gauge-taps over the holes in the end of the boiler.
Then see that all tapsare turned off and light the fire.
By turning on these taps it is easy to see whether the water is within these limits; but the precise height cannot be ascertained.
Now fasten the brass in the needle by two or three taps with a hammer on the under side of the brass, being careful not to strike the steel.
Give this plate two or three taps with a small hammer in the middle to hollow it a little.
This branch line taps the famous copper field between Chaotung and Ningyuan, the richest of its kind in China.
The Nanking-Loyang Line This line runs between two former capitals of China, passes through a very populous and fertile country, and taps a very rich coal field at the Loyang end.
This line taps the rich tin, silver, and antimony deposits of south Yunnan and Kwangsi, while rich iron and coal fields are found right along the whole line.
Or we went to see some one, or we took a message; or we did something that had to be done--the taps might be leaking.
Marconi effected a further improvement by making the current passing through the coherer control the striking mechanism, so that the latter is normally quiet but administers one or two taps at just the right moment.
We may think of the rheostats as tapswhich can be turned on or off by the action of the cranks.
The piece is arranged for printing as follows:--It is unwound, and its end is brought upon the teeth of the comb, and made to pass into them by slight taps with a brush.
These tiny fillets, being filed level on the one edge, are cut or bent into the proper shape, and forced into the wood by the taps of a hammer at the traced lines of the configuration.
A noise of running water from open taps broke with its monotonous splash the silence of this place, solely furnished with a huge slab of wood running from one end to the other.
The heads and shoulders alone were visible, and on the brows of the dead trickled icy water, dispensed sparingly but regularly by duck-billed taps that overhung the inclined plane.
There are three resounding volleys, Taps die out in tender tones And we're marching to the quick step From the grave of Corporal Jones.
But, when Tapswas over, They sang and danced a jig, Along came a Corporal And slammed them in the Brig.
When Taps has blown and all the troop is asleep, We nudge each other and gingerly creep, To where the shadows hang heavy and deep, I and my bunkie.
Hit the Grit Your corns will ripen on the road,-- Just pare them down when taps are "blowed.
To the man with a religious turn he was able, at a price, to hand down from his shelves the Key of Heaven; the other side of the box he comforted the man who came panting to his taps to drown the memory of some chronic impertinence.
Matthew looks on the ground and taps it with his foot, and he does not see that Joe is standing over him with his hands clenched.
She taps a gong on the table, and the Sister Sacristan enters.
He walks up to Madden and taps his arm familiarly with the back of his hand.
The room was long and narrow, while against the walls varnished barrels with copper taps were ranged in a long-drawn perspective that was lost in the thick haze of tobacco-smoke hanging in the air under the gas-jets.
He welcomed each lady who came in with a profound bow, and distributed friendly taps on the cheek among the young aristocrats around him.
The dram-shop was transfigured; the casks looked enormous with their taps splendidly glittering, and seemed to stretch into infinity in a quivering, golden mist.
They appear to have been in it, if the date of Drum Taps is ignored, longer even than Fleet Street.
The cries and taps were sounding nearer now, and at any moment the game might appear.
Then very far away came a shout, and a chorus of taps and cries followed it, sounding from a couple of miles away as the beaters after sweeping a wide circle entered the thick undergrowth on the opposite side of the wood.
When tapssounded on the bugle, that evening, all of the midshipmen, save Farley, were in their rooms.
Promptly as the last note of taps broke on the air the last of the midshipmen was in bed, and the electric light was turned off from a master switch.
Just as Brooks, the last of the lot, was passing through the doorway, the warning bell before taps sounded.
