headstock
headstock
Definition
head·stock (hed′stäk′)
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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