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Example sentences for "thin brass"

  • The stack itself is cut from a piece of thin brass tubing.

  • The hatch-rim is made by cutting a strip of thin brass 1/4 inch in width, the length being the circumference of the oval.

  • The rings for putting up the luffs of the jib- and main-sail are made by winding a piece of thin brass or German silver wire around a steel rod (the spokes used in the keel being suitable for the latter) and sawing down to divide them.

  • Temporarily screw the tube in position, and from a piece of thin brass make a plate for the inside.

  • For this you will want the rest of the brass wire and the remaining three stair-eyes as well as two pieces of thin brass plate, four and a half inches long, half an inch wide, and one-sixteenth of an inch thick.

  • Now get a tinman to make you a cap of thin brass plate (like Fig.

  • Solder a short piece of thin brass to the nut that is to be placed on the lower end of the bolt, and cut a recess in the countersunk portion of the hole in the base to accommodate it.

  • Procure a small strip of thin brass, or zinc, and file nine slots on one edge to correspond in diameter with the width of the horizontal lines which indicate the diameter of the rod on the pattern.

  • Tinplate, iron [Illustration: Metal Parts Screwed on Leather Hinge] hoops, zinc or thin brass cut in neat designs will make a leather hinge appear as well as a metal hinge.

  • Make a cylinder of wood of the required size and bend a sheet of thin brass around it.

  • It is a hemisphere of thin brass with a round plume socket at the top.

  • This instrument has twenty-four tones produced by thin brass wire-strings.

  • Two specimens of the nail-violin, one of which has sympathetic strings of thin brass-wire running over the sound-board.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    dollars each; first reception; polished rice; thin batter; thin brass; thin crust; thin layers; thin paste; thin sheet; thin slices; thine enemy; thine heart; thing before; things above; things done; things like; things went; think about; think himself; think only; think that; think them; think will; think you; thinking over; thinks himself