The throat diameter is the diameter of the addendum circle at the central plane of a wormgear or of a double-enveloping wormgear.
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“No man, said Birkin, cuts another man’s throat unless he wants to cut it, and unless the other man wants it cutting. This is a complete truth. It takes two people to make a murder: a murderer and a murderee.... And a man who is murderable is a man who has in a profound if hidden lust desires to be murdered.”
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