Mounting Work on Mandrels To machine a workpiece of an odd shape, such as a wheelpulley, a tapered mandrel is used to hold and turn the work.The mandrel must be mounted between centers and a driveplate and lathe dog must be used. The centers must be alignedand the mandrel must be free of burrs.
Rotifers: the wheel animalcules. Rotifers are microscopic aquatic animals of the phylum Rotifera. Rotifers can be found in many freshwater environments and in moist soil, where they inhabit the thin films of water that are formed around soil particles.ther animals with a pseudocoel, such as rotifers and acanthocephalans, appear to be more closely related to Lophotrochozoa, a large alliance of protostomes that includes molluscs, annelids, brachiopods, etc. Phylum Rotifera is divided into three classes: Monogononta, Bdelloidea, and Seisonidea.
Their taxonomy is currently in a state of flux. One treatment places them in the phylum Rotifera, with three classes: Seisonidea, Bdelloidea and Monogononta. The largest group is the Monogononta, with about 1500 species, followed by the Bdelloidea, with about 350 species.There are only two known genera with three species of Seisonidea.otifers are an important part of the freshwater zooplankton, being a major foodsource and with many species also contributing to the decomposition of soil organic matter. Most species of the rotifers are cosmopolitan, but there are also some endemic species, like Cephalodella vittata to Lake Baikal.