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Calibration
Calibration ensures the accuracy of the tools, and inspection, measuring and test equipment used to return aircraft, engines and components…
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Allowance (engineering)
In engineering and machining, an allowance is a planned deviation between an actual dimension and a nominal or theoretical dimension,…
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WORKSHOP PRACTICES
Care To Be Taken When Handling With Hand Tools A machinist must be skilled in the use of the numerous…
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Gas Turbine Engines
The gas turbine is an internal combustion engine that uses air as the working fluid. The engine extracts chemical energy…
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Hardness Testing
Hardness testing is a method of determining the results of heat treatment as well as the state of a metal…
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Other Alloys
Dow metal It is a magnesium-base alloy, containing 90% Mg, 10% Al and a small addition of Mn. Small additions…
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Bearing Metals
A Bearing metal should possess the following important characteristics : 1. It should have enough compressive strength to possess adequate…
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Nickel Alloys
German Silver It is also known as Ni-silver. It contains 60% Cu, 30% Ni and 10% Zn. It is very…
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Aluminium Alloys
Duralumin. It contains 4% Cu, 0.5% Mg, 0.5% Mn and the rest aluminium. It has high tensile strength, comparable with…
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Non-Ferrous Alloys
Due to poor physical and mechanical properties and high costs the nonferrous metals are seldom used in their pure state.…
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Non Ferrous Metals & It’s Alloys
Non-ferrous metals are those which do not contain iron as the base material. The most commonly used non-ferrous metals in…
