- Industria: Aviation
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Aviation Supplies & Academics, Inc. (ASA) develops and markets aviation supplies, software, and books for pilots, flight instructors, flight engineers, airline professionals, air traffic controllers, flight attendants, aviation technicians and enthusiasts. Established in 1947, ASA also provides ...
A timing coupling used with base-mounted magnetos. The vernier coupling allows the timing to be adjusted in increments of considerably less than one degree.
Industry:Aviation
A tiny chip or wafer of silicon on which is etched, imprinted, or diffused electronic components such as transistors, diodes, capacitors and resistors with their interconnections.
Industry:Aviation
A tire in which the body chords run straight across the tire. A belt of metal or synthetic cords is placed between the radial cords and the tread.
Industry:Aviation
A tool that looks much like a knife, but has no cutting edge. The thin, flexible, metal blade of a spatula is used to mix, spread, or move soft materials, such as resins.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used for cutting external threads on round stock.
The circular die has a split from the threaded hole in its center to its edge. An adjusting screw can spread this split to adjust the depth of the threads being cut.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used to bend thin-wall tubing without it collapsing.
The tubing is bent around a deep-grooved radius block, using a sliding bar with a matching groove.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used to cut threads all the way to the bottom of a hole. A bottoming tap has a flat end and no taper. It is used after the hole has been partially tapped with a plug tap.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used to drive aircraft rivets. A rivet set is a piece of hardened steel with a recess the shape of the rivet head in one end. The other end of the rivet set fits into the rivet gun. The rivet gun vibrates the rivet set and hammers the rivet against a heavy steel bucking bar held against the end of the rivet shank.
Rivnut. A patented fastener used to install threads in thin sheet metal. A Rivnut is a blind rivet with an internally threaded hollow shank. The Rivnut is slipped through a hole drilled in the thin sheet metal, and its shank is collapsed by pulling it with a special pulling tool screwed into the threads.
Rivnuts were developed by the B. F. Goodrich Company to install deicer boots on airplane wings.
Industry:Aviation
