Stainless steel screws were used to minimize corrosion stains.

The screws were then tightened and the drive put back into its case.

Up to that time, propellers were literally screws, of considerable length.

The poles were on screws, so a technician could first adjust them for maximum sensitivity and then apply a bias spring to set the critical current that would operate the relay.

* Sizes for screws, nuts bolts and other threaded fasteners were first standardized based on work of by Joseph Whitworth.

In the second season, we re-designed the VISOR and made it heavier and the way we actually affixed it was that we screwed it, we literally screwed it into my head and so there were screws that we would turn and there were flanges on the inside that would press into my temples and so after fifteen or twenty minutes of that I got headaches.

Holding all this together were thousands of bronze screws and copper rivets.

These planks were held together by thousands of copper rivets and bronze screws.

The spacecraft was carrying an ant colony to see if they could be trained to sort tiny screws in space, but were released by Homer by accident.

Gone were the hydraulic units, in favor of direct drive motors to rotate the ball screws, with rotary encoders to provide positioning feedback.

The ascent to the uppermost terrace-roofs is made by a stairway ; and alongside these stairs there were screws, through which the water was continually conducted up into the garden from the Euphrates by those appointed for this purpose, for the river, a stadium in width, flows through the middle of the city ; and the garden is on the bank of the river.

The main disadvantages of Nagant's rifle were the following: more complicated mechanism, long and tiresome procedure of disassembling ( which required special instruments-it was necessary to unscrew two screws ).

That wasn't enough so instead of purchasing locks and handles for the cases screws were used to hold the case doors.

In the early 16th century, the bindings were replaced by screws.

Until the late 19th century, timpani were hand-tuned ; that is, there was a sequence of screws with T-shaped handles, called taps, which altered the tension in the head when turned by players.

Nuts were rare ; metal screws, when made at all, were usually for use in wood.

Woodie wagons required constant maintenance ; bodies were finished in varnishes that required recoating, bolts and screws required periodic tightening as wood expanded and contracted through the seasons.

The screws were continually rotating augers placed horizontally along the edges of the arena floor.

For Season 5, the screws were upgraded with biting ' teeth ' to better catch onto robots.

Before about the beginning of the 19th century, these were used in pairs, and even screws of the same machine were generally not interchangeable.

These earliest screwdrivers had pear-shaped handles and were made for slotted screws ( diversification of the many types of screwdrivers did not emerge until the Gilded Age ).

The jaws holding the pyrites inside medieval guns were secured with screws, and the need to constantly replace the pyrites resulted in considerable refinement of the screwdriver.

Besides flathead bronze screws, silicon bronze Stronghold nails ( made by Independent Nail & Packing Co., Bridgewater, Mass. ) are used extensively in assembly and Weldwood resorcinol glue is used in all the joints.

One-inch, No. 10 screws are used in both cases.

Glue and 1-1/2-inch, No. 10 screws are used.

* High brass contains 65 % copper and 35 % zinc, has a high tensile strength and is used for springs, screws, and rivets.

They are also used as fillers for orthopedic plastic screws to aid in reducing the inflammation and increase absorption of these plastic materials.

The make or buy also outlines the standardisation process, where bolts can be used, screws might substitute the bolts so finally that is a standard approach.

Pins or screws to set and hold bones may be used.

Depending on the length and diameter of the screws, more than one machine could be used successively to lift the same water.

Archimedes ' screws are used in sewage treatment plants because they cope well with varying rates of flow and with suspended solids.

On a much larger scale, Archimedes ' screws of decreasing pitch are used for the compaction of waste material.

Before point-to-point connection, electrical assemblies used screws or wire nuts to hold wires to an insulating wooden or ceramic board.

Later, with the advent of mechanical sawing, American elm wood was used for barrel staves, trunk-slats, and hoop-poles, and subsequently became fundamental to the manufacture of wooden automobile bodies, with the intricate fibers holding screws unusually well.

* Various mechanical fasteners may be used, the simplest being nails and screws.

Apple's NuBus implementation used pin and socket connectors with thumbscrews on the back of the card rather than the often stubborn edge connectors with Phillips screws inside the case that most cards use, making it much easier to install cards.

* Wall plug, a type of fastener used in buildings which allows screws to be fitted into masonry walls

It is usually associated with a plain head for slotted screws, but has been used with many head forms.

( Slotted screws are rarely used in mass-produced devices, since the driver is not inherently centered on the fastener.

Specialized patterns of security screws are also used, such as the Line Head ( LH ) style by OSG System Products, Japan, as used in many Nintendo consoles, though drivers for the more common security heads are, again, readily available.

* Screwdriver, mechanical device used to tighten or loosen screws

The lid screws off and is replaced by a disposable teat when the formula is ready to be used.