- 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 tool used to remove a broken tap from a hole. Taps are made of very hard and brittle steel and they can be broken off in the hole being tapped. The tap extractor has a series of fingers that can be stuck down into the hole through the flutes in the tap. When the tap extractor is turned with a wrench, the fingers turn the tap and screw it out of the hole.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used to remove insulation from an electrical wire without nicking or otherwise damaging the strands.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used to smooth the surface of an abrasive grinding wheel. An industrial diamond is mounted in the tool, which is clamped in the tool rest in such a way that the diamond can be moved across the face of the abrasive wheel. The diamond wears away any roughness on the wheel and produces a smooth surface.
Industry:Aviation
A tool used when working with plastic resins, to spread the resin evenly over a surface and level it. Screeding tools are often made of some form of polyvinylchloride plastic material that releases the resin, making the tool easy to clean.
Industry:Aviation
A tooth of a gear that has had one of the edges of its point chamfered, or beveled. The chamfered edge identifies the tooth that must be meshed with marked teeth on the mating gear to properly time the mechanism driven by the gears.
Magneto distributor gears and the gears that drive the valve mechanism in a reciprocating engine often use chamfered teeth to aid in timing.
Industry:Aviation
A top overhaul does not include opening the crankcase or removing the connecting
rods from the crankshaft.
Industry:Aviation
A torch in which plasma gas is injected into an electric arc formed between two electrodes in a chamber. The stream of hot gases leaves the torch at an extremely high speed through an orifice in the negative electrode. This high-velocity, high-temperature stream can be used for welding, cutting, or spraying molten metal. The temperature produced by a plasma torch can be as high as 60,000°F.
Industry:Aviation
A tornado, or vortex cloud, extending downward from the parent cloud, but not reaching the ground.
Industry:Aviation
A tough, heavy-duty fabric used for making work clothing. Denim is woven with colored threads for the warp (the threads that run the length of the fabric) and white threads for the fill (the threads that run across the fabric).
Industry:Aviation
