Sentence examples for shaft set from inspiring English sources

Replacing the shaft set should seal things up.

The ground underneath sleepy Centralia has been burning steadily since 1962, when a coal seam running into a mine shaft set on fire and never went out.

The body of these vessels was generally cylindrical or potbellied, with a lid and a short shaft set on a circular base.

Although long gone, the double-height banking level on the second floor had a particularly unusual feature: while the elevator shaft, set forward into the room, had the usual marble walls surrounding its lower half, the upper portion was covered only in plate glass.

Solid tissue samples were homogenized using a Dounce tissue grinder with pestle (1 ml; Cat. No. FB56687) from Fisher Scientific or an Ystral homogenizer X10/25 (10-mm-diameter shaft, set at speed of 11 kHz) from The Scientific Instrument Centre Ltd (Winchester, UK).

A setscrew on the shaft sets ball-bearing clearance, held by a lock nut.

The phrase "door into the dark" comes from the first line of a poem about a blacksmith, a shape maker, standing in the door of a forge and, as a title, it picks up on the last line of Death of a Naturalist, where the neophyte sees a continuity between the effect he wants to achieve in his writing and the noise he made when he used to shout down a well shaft "to set the darkness echoing".

Take the large board (which will act as the shaft) and set the tip of it onto the middle of the small board.

In the catalog from Yale University Press the curator Jack Hinton explains how medieval ceramists dug clay out of mine shafts and set off clouds of acid fumes while formulating salty glazes.

Some of the tests took place near mock-up houses filled with fully dressed mannequins and shelves of canned food; later ones, placed deep in subterranean shafts, merely set off shock waves that, 22 seconds later, rattled upper floors in Las Vegas, 65 miles to the south-east.

The undercarriage of the Avrocar was rudimentary with three small castoring wheels mounted on "stub" shafts; a set of skids was substituted later in testing although they were not normally fitted.