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headstock Definition

head·stock (hedstäk′)

noun

a bearing or support for a revolving or moving part of a machine; specif., the part of a lathe supporting the spindle

headstock Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • gear: Fully geared headstock and power sliding separate from the screwcutting feed.
  • use: I will certainly use Headstocks again whether for delivery of a new bike or relocation of one my existing ones.
  • have: From May 1979 the Pros had the more usual striped headstocks.
  • retain: We also saw two of our new canon retaining headstocks and a lot of other bells and bits.

Adjective modifier

  • wooden: Copyright © 2005 Pam Morley Bells hang from a heavy wooden headstock of elm.
  • new: Thursday 6th September 2001 Work on the new headstock was started today.
  • shaped: It sports a higher spec neck and a shaped headstock.
  • original: The bike is then connected to the A frame rollover bar using the bike's original headstock, bottom yoke and steering spindle.

Modifies a noun

  • spindle: The final drive up to the headstock spindle was by a Reynolds chain.
  • pulley: The three rings of indexing holes in the headstock pulley were engaged by a pointer mounted on a swinging bracket.
  • casting: The rear wall of the headstock casting was built up level to top of the spindle bearings.
  • bearing: During that long production run there were, apart from three designs of headstock bearing, only minor changes in specification required.
  • belt: The lower ( motor ) belt was 38 " long and the upper headstock drive belt 60 " long.
  • assembly: Whilst most makers offered similar devices in a bolt-on form Holbrook required the customer to invest in a complete headstock assembly.

Noun used with modifier

  • ball-bearing: As the " Fifties " ended, Craftsman introduced this ball-bearing headstock, 12-inch wood-turning lathe.
  • lathe: Their range of rounders and trapping planes provide the means to do the job properly by hand or using a slow-speed lathe headstock.
  • bore: The 10mm bore headstock spindle used two adjustable conical hardened-steel plain bearings with a ball thrust race behind the pulley.
  • iron: New gudgeons and ball bearings were fitted to the other five cast iron headstocks.
  • cast: This also facilitates mounting on the cast headstocks used on pedal steel guitars.
  • steel: At the same time the bells were recast and some reconstruction took place in the belfry, when a steel headstock was inserted.

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