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  • Capstan (tape recorder), rotating spindles used to move recording tape through the mechanism of a tape recorder Capstan equation, formula to describe hold-force...
    811 bytes (154 words) - 19:42, 24 July 2022
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    each direction of the tape (e.g. the two different tracks present on most, if not all, compact cassettes). The capstan is a rotating spindle used to move...
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    ensure the components manufactured on the machines can meet the required tolerances and repeatability. The headstock (H1) houses the main spindle (H4),...
    35 KB (5,054 words) - 01:04, 28 March 2024
  • squeezed between the "capstan" (a precision shaft driven at constant speed) and the pinch wheel and so is drawn past whatever combination of record, replay...
    2 KB (203 words) - 02:58, 23 February 2024
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    warping of the record or from a pressing plate that was not precisely centered. If the grooves are not centered exactly relative to the spindle hole, the linear...
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    the tape by pinching and pulling it between a motorized capstan, a rotating metal shaft or spindle, and a larger rubber idler roller, called a pinch wheel...
    47 KB (6,430 words) - 13:49, 13 May 2024
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    Electric motor (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the ODNB)
    rate (>40 kHz) or DC because of decreased electromagnetic induction. These motors were invented to drive the capstan(s) of magnetic tape drives, where...
    119 KB (13,110 words) - 13:32, 3 May 2024
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    of the B215, buried deep inside the mechanism, directly drive the cassette's reels. Motors, capstans and reel spindles are mounted on two diecast chassis...
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  • Mary (1811 Bideford ship) (category Age of Sail merchant ships of England)
    boats, spars, binnacle, and compasses. The capstan was torn from its spindle, and there was extensive loss of sails and rigging. Although Mary apparently...
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  • splined 1⁄4 in (6.4 mm) shaft known as a cine spindle, because it is of the same dimensions as the spindle used for Standard Standard 8mm cine film. These...
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    crane walks. The rope attached to a pulley is turned onto a spindle by the rotation of the wheel thus allowing the device to hoist or lower the affixed pallet...
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  • suitable head-cleaning fluids. The heads and other metallic components in the tape path (such as spindles and capstans) may become magnetized with use...
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    sclerites. The identity of these is important for distinguishing between different closely related species. In Melithaea ochracea, they include capstans, double...
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  • Carad (category Audio equipment manufacturers of Belgium)
    motors, capstan spindles, three heads, 10" reels and an adjustable azimuth of the playback head. The R62 was followed by the R53 (1963), the R66 (1967...
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    approximately at right angles from the foredeck to support an anchor outboard of the hull. Capstan a vertical winch secured to the foredeck, used primarily to...
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    a range of different sclerites including foliate capstans and spheroids, plain spindles, plain capstans and small and large clubs. Members of this family...
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  • Margaret instituted a new order (compagnia) the device of which was a gold-embroidered spindle or capstan (argata) on a red field. There is no evidence that...
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    its environment. The Greenpoint Monitor Monument in McGolrick Park, Brooklyn, depicts a sailor from Monitor pulling on a capstan. The sculptor Antonio...
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  • the capstan was already spinning at full speed, tape playback commenced without delay or any audible "run-up". Mechanical carousels would rotate the carts...
    12 KB (1,588 words) - 19:28, 20 November 2023
  • This list is complete with respect to the 1996 Gazetteer of Australia. Dubious names have been checked against the online 2004 data, and in all cases confirmed...
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