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  2. String trimmer - Wikipedia

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    A string trimmer, also known by the portmanteau strimmer and the trademarks Weedwacker, Weed Eater and Whipper Snipper, [1] [a] is a garden power tool for cutting grass, small weeds, and groundcover. It uses a whirling monofilament line instead of a blade, which protrudes from a rotating spindle at the end of a long shaft topped by a gasoline ...

  3. George Ballas - Wikipedia

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    Ballas got the idea for the trimmer while driving through an automatic car wash, where the rotating brushes gave him an idea. Using a tin can laced with fishing line and an edge trimmer, he tried out his idea, which worked. After some refinements, he shopped it around to several tool makers, who all rejected his invention.

  4. Weed Eater - Wikipedia

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    Weed Eater is a string trimmer company founded in 1971 in Houston, Texas by George C. Ballas, Sr., the inventor of the device. The idea for the Weed Eater trimmer came to him from the spinning nylon bristles of an automatic car wash. He thought that he could come up with a similar technique to protect the bark on trees that he was trimming around.

  5. The Benefits of Tapering Before a Century and How to Do It Right

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    What to know about reducing training intensity a.k.a. tapering leading up to a race, including the benefits and how to do it right.

  6. Machine taper - Wikipedia

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    Spindle nose on a lathe headstock. The small female taper is a Morse taper to take a lathe center or a tool such as a twist drill. The large male taper takes a lathe chuck, which is retained by the large nut. A machine taper is a system for securing cutting tools or toolholders in the spindle of a machine tool or power tool.

  7. Trimmer (electronics) - Wikipedia

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    A trimmer, or preset, is a miniature adjustable electrical component. It is meant to be set correctly when installed in some device, and never seen or adjusted by the device's user. It is meant to be set correctly when installed in some device, and never seen or adjusted by the device's user.

  8. Can I be fired for smoking weed in off-hours? Grow cannabis ...

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    Saturday marks a special holiday for fans of cannabis culture. April 20, known as 4/20, is celebrated by marijuana enthusiasts across the globe.. Although cannabis use is legal in California ...

  9. Power take-off - Wikipedia

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    A PTO at the rear end of a farm tractor A PTO (in the box at the bottom) in the center of the three-point hitch of a tractor. A power take-off or power takeoff (PTO) is one of several methods for taking power from a power source, such as a running engine, and transmitting it to an application such as an attached implement or separate machine.