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Hand wheel
The hand wheel is like a bench wheel except that its bracket is fixed directly to the frame of the lathe or machine it is driving instead of to the bench. The Swiss mandril and some other tools have the hand wheel geared directly to the spindle of the machine, and for many purposes the hand wheel has an advantage over the bow in that it imparts continuous motion in one direction.
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