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Spindeln

English translation: boring

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German term or phrase:Spindeln
English translation:boring
Entered by: transatgees

09:53 Jan 16, 2008
German to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Mechanics / Mech Engineering / Machine tools
German term or phrase: Spindeln
In a list of machine tools owned by a company:

23 konventionelle Maschinen (Raeumen, **Spindeln**, Bohren).

No further contect, sorry. Very grateful for your help but please don't tell me the answer is "spindles". It is a machining operation (like the other two words in the list)
transatgees
United Kingdom
Local time: 00:47
boring
Explanation:
A boring bar is a Bohrspindel
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John Jory
Germany
Local time: 01:47
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4 +3boring
John Jory


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23 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +3
boring


Explanation:
A boring bar is a Bohrspindel

John Jory
Germany
Local time: 01:47
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PRO pts in category: 359
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Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Steffen Walter: But, how would you translate "Bohren" in this context? As "drilling"?
34 mins
  -> Yes :-)
agree  Darin Fitzpatrick: Yes, and "drilling" for "Bohren".
3 hrs
agree  Rebecca Garber
4 hrs
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