Embodiments for an engine exhaust are provided. The method of the invention is flexible in equipment and production requirements and is readily adaptable to manufacturing facilities of conventional cement. The heat pipe interacts with a cooling gas flow extending along the circuit breaker inner conductor. A portion of each of the protective layer and the high-K dielectric layer can be removed from the fuse region to expose the STI structure. The attachment can fine adjust the positions of the pipe ends relative to one another until the ends align with each other, at which point the pipe ends can be welded or otherwise secured to each other while being held in position by the grapple mechanisms. By combining, or interleaving, the two types of delay, single and dual locked loops constructed using the present invention achieve a desired jitter performance under PVT variations, dynamically track the delay variations of one coarse tap without a large number of delay taps, and provide for quick and tight locking.