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Bakshoek aandrijving

English translation: Azimuth drive

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Dutch term or phrase:Bakshoek aandrijving
English translation:Azimuth drive
Entered by: Lucinda Hollenberg

17:51 Mar 31, 2005
Dutch to English translations [PRO]
Tech/Engineering - Ships, Sailing, Maritime / Technical equipment on ship
Dutch term or phrase: Bakshoek aandrijving
This term appears in several places of the document, for example:
Het uitwisselen van de olieverwarming (*bakshoek* aandrijving)
Het uitwisselen van het anti-condensatie verwarmingselement (*bakshoek* aandrijving)
There are more similar instances. Am I correct to assume that -bakshoek - Dutch van Dale explains it as: "Hoek waarover geschut gedraaid is", roughly in English: the angle the weaponry turns on. I am looking for something short and to the point in English.

I cannot think of something. Help! Brain freeze.
Lucinda Hollenberg
Local time: 06:44
Azimuth drive
Explanation:
Since bakshoek is primarily a naval term, with a primary meaning of azimuth, it is highly likely that the subject here is some kind of instrument or device which has an azimuth drive (right-left to the layman).
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Richard Sanders
United States
Local time: 05:44
Grading comment
That is it. Thank you so much. I had this in another translation for this client and could not remember it to save my life.
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Summary of answers provided
4 +2angle drive
Jack den Haan
4 +1Azimuth drive
Richard Sanders


  

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43 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +1
Azimuth drive


Explanation:
Since bakshoek is primarily a naval term, with a primary meaning of azimuth, it is highly likely that the subject here is some kind of instrument or device which has an azimuth drive (right-left to the layman).

Richard Sanders
United States
Local time: 05:44
Native speaker of: English
PRO pts in category: 4
Grading comment
That is it. Thank you so much. I had this in another translation for this client and could not remember it to save my life.

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
neutral  Jack den Haan: You may be right, but on the other hand 'azimuth' is a navigational term, and I don't quite see the connection between 'azimuth' and 'drive'.
44 mins
agree  Ken Cox: Plausible; azimuth and elevation are the two parameters for aiming a gun, and a pivoting drive (about a vertical axis) on a ship (e.g. for a deck crane) is called an azimuth drive. See e.g.: www.breekpunt.nl/artikel.asp?id=1286
1 hr
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53 mins   confidence: Answerer confidence 4/5Answerer confidence 4/5 peer agreement (net): +2
angle drive


Explanation:
Not absolutely sure about this, but bakshoekaandrijving seems to refer to the transmission of power and/or motion between intersecting shafts, e.g. the driving shaft of the engine and drive shaft on which the propellor or screw is mounted


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Note added at 1 hr 24 mins (2005-03-31 19:16:35 GMT)
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TWB Scheeps/regel/Installatietechniek (Delévaque: bakshoek = angle (sy. traversing angle); bakshoeksturing = angle steering

Personal remark: \'Bak\' in a maritime sense means \'forecastle\', and, due to the restricted space for a transversely mounted engine in that area of the vessel, that would seem just the kind of place where angular driving would be applied. This type of propulsion at the forecastle is done by what is called a \'kopschroef\' in Dutch, and is used for steering purposes in critical steering situations. There may be a \'link\' here ...

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Note added at 1 day 2 hrs 9 mins (2005-04-01 20:00:49 GMT) Post-grading
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You\'re welcome ;-)


    Reference: http://www.m-knoepfli.com/marine.htm
    Reference: http://www.commercialsalesinc.com/inv3.htm
Jack den Haan
Netherlands
Local time: 11:44
Native speaker of: Native in DutchDutch, Native in EnglishEnglish
PRO pts in category: 85

Peer comments on this answer (and responses from the answerer)
agree  Brave
1 hr
  -> tks
agree  Fred ten Berge: Possibly any furher relation with 'bakboord' (English 'port') = left ??
4 hrs
  -> I have considered that too, but as far as I know there is no further relationship.
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