Sentence examples for stripped bolt from inspiring English sources

The question aboard the space shuttle Atlantis on Sunday was whether Michael J. Massimino would rock a handrail on the Hubble Space Telescope back and forth to fatigue a stripped bolt that was stubbornly holding it, or just give the rail a big yank to break it and the bolt off.

The handrail had a stripped bolt on the bottom, preventing it from being released.

Although this will strip the bolt, it will by God make everything fit.

"If you're trying to turn that faucet that's all frozen up, or if you strip the bolt off a bicycle, you'll need something with some teeth and some leverage," Mr. Ball said.

Be careful not to strip the bolt!

Then, to the strains of the Eurythmics' Sweet Dreams, Bolt stripped away the tracksuit and got down to the block.

Dr. Massimino had trained for years to do this on-orbit "brain surgery," but first, having stripped a crucial bolt, he would have to resort to brute force.

As it moved forward, the bolt stripped the top cartridge from an eight-round, clip-loaded magazine within the receiver and seated it in the chamber, ready to fire.

Be careful not to strip the bolts.

However, you definitely want a lot of spares - each time we build the dome we've stripped half the bolts.

The couple tried to help, but the wheel's bolts were stripped.