Brille
English translation: retainer ring / collar bracket
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| 19:06 Nov 8, 2007 |
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|  Selected response from: Ken Cox Local time: 13:07 | ||||||
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| 3 +1 | retainer ring / collar bracket |
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| 2 | latch? |
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| 1 | latch |
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8 mins confidence: 
latch Explanation: just from your description I would guess someform of protection/ more context would help |
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16 mins confidence:
latch? Explanation: The dictionary does define it as a latch or gasket, and there are latch beams. But I'm only guessing here. |
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1 hr confidence: peer agreement (net): +1
peer agreement (net): +1retainer ring / collar bracket Explanation: Not quite sure if 'retainer ring' is the right term (a picture of the item in question would be worth the proverbial thousand words). Another possibility is 'collar bracket', but it's hard to find a relevant example. In a mechanical or structural engineering context, a Brille is generically anything essentially ring shaped (my favourage example being the WC-Brille), and furthermore Brille is known to mechanical engineers as one of the names for a steady used on a lathe (also called a Lunnete or Setzstock, which is a ring-shaped device that is used to support the middle a long, relatively slender workpieces. In this case, it appears that some sort of essentially ring-shaped (perhaps an open rectangle) retainer cum bracket has been fitted to prevent the beam from falling if its fastening bolts tear loose. An example of a Setzstock (in the conventional sense): Der Eigenbau-Setzstock für die ... 600 x 415 - 41k - jpg ship-model-today.de A couple of examples of retaining rings: Headlight Retainer Ring, Stainless, ... 396 x 387 - 86k - jpg www.taillightking.com Comes with Garbage Bag Retainer Ring ... 250 x 241 - 9k - jpg www.itouchless.com And of a collar bracket in the sense intended here: Collar Bracket (CB), CB ADJ (up/down ... 133 x 234 - 4k - gif www.fortressiron.com |
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