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skiving

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skiving [′skīv·iŋ]
(mechanical engineering)
Removal of material in thin layers or chips with a high degree of shear or slippage of the cutting tool.
A machining operation in which the cut is made with a form tool with its face at an angle allowing the cutting edge to progress from one end of the work to the other as the tool feeds tangentially past ten rotating workpieces.


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Instrumentation: Equipment for lab testing; clickers for dumbbell cutting; skiving equipment for ply splitting; band-knife splitters
Another area where there is skiving for a different purpose is in the area where the door for the passenger-side airbag is located.
Until now, UHMW-PE film could be made only by skiving off a compression-molded block, which is slow and costly and can't make film thinner than about 50 microns.
 
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