Shot anchor

If " Ledcore units, Primacord1 or Primaline are no-t available, the cap leg wires should be securely anchored at or near the shot point... 

I shot the bolt and hung up the lantern. Alcohol sang in my ears as the room tilted and went hazy. There was no other light except from the fire and the glow of embers in the furnace. Shales put his hand on the mantel, as if to anchor himself The air was thick with the heat of a late May evening, the two fires, and the smell of sulfur, ancient wood, and Father s tobacco. 

The casting of Keith is critical to this film. Without him, you see extraordinary athletes who are past the most difficult part of their journeys from injury to altered ability. "He anchors the film— narratively and emotionally—because without him, you don t see what [the other] guys lost," says Dana Adam Shapiro, the film s codirector and producer, in publicity material. At the Kessler Institute for Rehabilitation (an exterior shot of the building establishes this),... 

Gun research was already advanced. The first task of the gun group, Edwin McMillan remembers, was to set up a test stand where experiments could be done. You have to have a gun emplacement, and a gun, and a sand butt, which is nothing but a huge box full of sand that you fire projectiles into so that you can find the pieces afterwards, and because there might be somebody else out there. The site they chose was Anchor Ranch, a former working ranch three miles southwest of the mesa that the Army had bought as part of the reservation they fired the first shot on September 17, 1943. 

The Keane-Tator Profile Comparator contains a metal disc with nominal surface profiles of 0.5, 1, 2, 3, and 4 mil. This flashlight magnifier is used as a handy pocket type comparator to check on sandblast cleaned surfaces. Metal discs for comparisons of anchor patterns prepared with grit or shot blast are also available. 

Figure 2.1 Anchor Rod with Upset Threads 2.2.S.4 Shot Peening...

Shot peening, defined as shot blasting with small steel balls driven by a blast of air, is a method of removing defects for highly critical anchors, and is specifically recommended for use on anchors subjected to high-cycle fatigue. It is not deemed necessary for other applications. 

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