Sentence examples for crank used from inspiring English sources

Then there is the counter crank, used to tie up the line of someone trying to place crank calls to the Yippies.

Inputs to the model include the length of the user's arm segments, the position of the user's shoulder and the size of crank used.

When automakers began offering power windows, they just slapped a motor where the hand crank used to go.

After correction for acceleration artefacts (Ettema and Huijing 1994), pedal normal and shear forces were transformed to crank shear and normal forces by rotation of the coordination system from pedal to crank using the angle between pedal and crank as calculated from the kinematical data.

If you feel any then the crank needs a re-build since the generator is bolted to the end of the crank Using a dial indicator and comparing reading changes with manual specified end float and radial movement tolerances will give a more accurate idea of the significance of any play found.

The builders have created a pedal power alternative to the hand cranks used on the standard OLPC, and it definitely makes sense to do so.

Wang Zhenduo argued that the technology of the Eastern Han era was sophisticated enough to produce such a device, as evidenced by contemporary levers and cranks used in other devices such as crossbow triggers.

Finally, the position control of the slider crank is used to show the performance of the proposed control scheme.

This crank is used to control how big the flame is.

Some tractors are not cranked and used very often, and the battery can lose its charge while the machine is not used.

Continuous crank angular velocity was calculated from crank angles using a 5-point differentiating filter.