Engineering Terms

Allen key

Pneumatic Actuator

Angle Section

Bar Stock

Bearing (Roller)

Bellville washer

Bolt

Boss

Bush

Cam

Cap Screw

Castle nut

Chain

Chamfer

Channel Section

Circlip

Collet

Compression Spring

Counterbore

Countersink

Die (Thread cutting)

Die (Pressing and forming)

Dowel pins

Draft angle (green)

Epicyclic gears

Extension Spring

Extrusion

Feeler Gauge

Female thread (internal)

Filet radius

Flange

Flash

Gasket

Gear- Spur type

Gear- Helical type

Gear- Bevel type

Housing

I and H beams

Jubilee clip

Key and Keyway (shown in a shaft/pulley)

Knurled finish

Leadscrew

Linkage- 4 bar

Lever

Lip seal

Locking nut

Male thread (external)

Mechanism- Geneva

Mechanism- Slider crank

Scotch Yoke

Micrometer

MOD (when refering to gears)

Nut (hex)

One way valve- pneumatic

“O” ring

PCD (Pitch Circle Diameter)

Plain Bearing

Pop Rivet

Pulley

Punch

Rack and Pinion

Pin (roll type)

RSJ

RHS- Rectangular Hollow Section

Screw Jack

Set screw

Shim

Shoulder screw

Spigot

Splines

Split pin

Spot face

Spring Washer

Sprocket

Socket

Stud (threaded)

Tab Washer

Tap (thread cutting)

Taper (morse)

Taper pin

Thrust Washer

Toothed Belt

Torsion spring

Tube

“V” belt

Vernier

Vice

Washer (plain)

Web

Wing nut

Woodruff key

Worm gear

Wedge