Most modern fly reels have an adjustable, mechanical drag system to control line tension during a fish's run.

There is also a 30m high fly tower, as well as an adjustable orchestra pit that can hold up to 100 musicians.

A thickness planer consists of three elements: a cutter head which contains the cutting knives ; a set of in feed and out feed rollers which draw the board through the machine ; and a table which is adjustable relative to the cutter head to control the resultant thickness of the board.

One innovation is a metal bar called a truss rod, which is incorporated into the neck to strengthen it and provide adjustable counter-tension to the stress of the strings.

Air is applied to cylinders to start the engine forwards or backwards because they are normally directly connected to the propeller without clutch or gearbox, and to provide reverse propulsion either the engine must be run backwards or the ship will utilise an adjustable propeller.

The ruler is replaced by a rod with a pencil holder ( point C ) at one end, and two adjustable side pins ( points A and B ) that slide into two perpendicular slots cut into a metal plate.

It is made to hold a guitar via the shoulders, at an adjustable length to suit the position favored by the guitarist.

It is fitted with various adjustable straps which may be tightened to secure a good fit.

It is machined from solid brass and hardened steel and is adjustable by an eccentric roller to suit any gauge of string.

The height of the top cymbal with the pedal released is adjustable by varying the position of the clutch on the centre shaft.

* a basal dose that is pumped continuously at an adjustable basal rate to deliver insulin needed between meals and at night.

The length of the rower handles on this class of rower is typically adjustable, however, during the row the handle length is fixed which in turn fixes the trajectory that the hands must take on the stroke and return, thus making the stroke less accurate than is possible on the other types of resistance models where it is possible to emulate the difference in hand height on the stroke and return.

The braking resistance is adjustable and energy can be accurately measured on this type of rower.

Where A is an adjustable parameter.

The M16A2 is a select-fire rifle ( semi-automatic fire, three-round-burst fire ) incorporating design elements requested by the Marine Corps: an adjustable, windage rear-sight ; a stock longer ; heavier barrel ; case deflector for left-hand shooters ; and cylindrical handguards.

As the pressure increases, the closed end moves in an arc, and this motion is converted into the rotation of a ( segment of a ) gear by a connecting link that is usually adjustable.

In the figure, is the unknown resistance to be measured ;, and are resistors of known resistance and the resistance of is adjustable.

Alternatively, if,, and are known, but is not adjustable, the voltage difference across or current flow through the meter can be used to calculate the value of, using Kirchhoff's circuit laws ( also known as Kirchhoff's rules ).

This knot is particularly useful where the length of the running end needs to be adjustable, since feeding in rope from either direction will loosen the knot to be tightened at a new position.

Such a triplet has the property that its output voltage is proportional to the input voltage raised to an adjustable power.

With up to 13 adjustable parameters they obtained a result very close to the experimental result for the dissociation energy.

The 40-ton tractor sports a very large, all axis adjustable V-shaped hydraulic dozer blade at the front, a single soil ripper spike at the rear and a 2-ton crane on the top.

The recirculating ball design also has a perceptible lash, or " dead spot " on center, where a minute turn of the steering wheel in either direction does not move the steering apparatus ; this is easily adjustable via a screw on the end of the steering box to account for wear, but it cannot be entirely eliminated because it will create excessive internal forces at other positions and the mechanism will wear very rapidly.

Boxcars have side doors of varying size and operation, and some include end doors and adjustable bulkheads to load very large items.

To this end Ford built on the already extensive specification available on the outgoing MkII Granada ( which for the period, was very well equipped, with features such as leather heated electrically adjustable seats, air conditioning, electric sunroof and trip computer either standard or available as options ) by adding some additional features unusual on a mass-market car.

Other models included were the Interstate ( 1991 – 1996 ) this was a basic version with no rear adjustable foot rests, a very basic radio, no intercom and other changes to make it a more basic large bike.

Also, there are usually adjustable stops at 90 and 45 degrees for head tilting allowing easy and very accurate adjustment of the saw.

* 1975 Mercedes-Benz 450SEL 6. 9 flagship and the very sleek Rolls-Royce Camargue, had the height adjustable suspension and self-levelling suspension features of ABC again from the Citroën CX

It can be seen that at low frequencies the design of the loading coil can be challenging: it must have high inductance but very low losses at the transmitting frequency ( high Q ), must carry high currents, withstand high voltages at its ungrounded end, and be adjustable.

A very late model " Transitional " Conn 6M alto with adjustable thumb-hook.

A manual device is useful for one-time set up of a system, and is a near-equivalent to a fixed attenuator, and may be referred to as an " adjustable attenuator ".

The modifications included narrowing and shaping the walls above the stage to reduce the volume of space and increase useful reflections, replacing the cloud of reflector discs with a more effective array that covers a larger area and is computer adjustable, pulling in the walls of the floor-level seating to make the audience area narrower and more rectangular, adding aisles to replace the former continental seating, adding diffusing elements in various parts of the hall, and increasing the “ rake ” of the floor seating to provide better sightlines.

: In contrast, an adjustable steering column allows steering wheel height to be adjusted with only a small, useful change in tilt.

The adjustable grip hitch is a simple and useful friction hitch which may easily be shifted up and down the rope while slack.

On almost all modern electric guitars, the bridge has saddles that are adjustable for each string so that intonation stays correct up and down the neck.

where and are the molecular wavefunctions for the bonding and antibonding molecular orbitals, respectively, and are the atomic wavefunctions from atoms a and b, respectively, and and are adjustable coefficients.

In addition, Porsche installed manually adjustable lightweight Recaro racing seats rather than the standard power-operated leather buckets ( also manufactured by Recaro ), a revised suspension system optimized and lowered by 20 mm for possible track use, 17-inch wheels ( also slightly wider to accommodate wider tyres ) rather than the 16-inch as found on the Coupe and wider tires, 225 front and 255 rears rather than 205 and 245 respectively.

This pistol was chambered in. 22 Long Rifle and came with adjustable iron sights and grips designed for target shooting.

In the 1960s adjustable buoyancy life jackets ( ABLJ ) for aqualung-type scuba became available ; one early make, since 1961, was Fenzy.

Many adjustable transformer designs were introduced to compensate for this problematic characteristic of the series circuit, including those employing methods of adjusting the core or bypassing the magnetic flux around part of a coil.

Stanley's 1886 design for adjustable gap open-core induction coils

Stanley's first patented design was for induction coils with single cores of soft iron and adjustable gaps to regulate the EMF present in the secondary winding ( see image ).

Vannevar Bush ( ; March 11, 1890 – June 28, 1974 ) was an American engineer, inventor and science administrator known for his work on analog computers, for his role as an initiator and administrator of the Manhattan Project, for founding Raytheon, and for the memex, an adjustable microfilm viewer with a structure analogous to that of the World Wide Web.

* The adjustable inductance for varying the period.

McKee and Ross also applied for and were granted two patents, one in 1984 for a basic adjustable binding system and the other in 1985 for a patent for their adjustable plate type foot strap system.

Stanley's first patented design was for induction coils with single cores of soft iron and adjustable gaps to regulate the EMF present in the secondary winding.