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Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:47 pm
by windybob
Nice job! When you pour a 602 head, I will send you a gold star.
Glad the paper worked.
I tried soot before, that didn't work for me.
Ed, here's my pedastal fixture....
The tin bands are to put around where the flange gets poured. Sure keeps the putty from falling off. They just snap together.
The fixture is adjustable. the top fits on the case snugly.
aermotor 602 fixture 3.jpeg
aermotor 602 fixture 1.jpeg
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 5:49 pm
by windybob
I can pour you a couple pedastal bearings if you want. That way you can just glue them in. Yeah..I'm almost kidding. I've sent them to folks before. Just between you and me okay?
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2020 8:28 pm
by mtblah
Mr ED, try the bakers parchment paper, you will be amazed how clean & nice the bearing comes out.
Thanks all for the encouragement & sharing your lessons learned !
Windybob's sure is smart, his idea. Thanks
Mike B
New Braunfels TX
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Fri Oct 02, 2020 7:16 am
by windybob
Thanks Mike, but even a broken clock is right twice a day.
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Sat Oct 03, 2020 8:05 am
by Wayne
I've said for a long time Windy is a Genius!
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2020 5:56 pm
by windybob
Wayne, the standards for "genius" category must have really slipped over the years. Wonder what kind of questions are on the Mensa test.....
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 8:45 am
by Wayne
The joke is the next step for a genius is a blitthering idiot HE HE. I visit the web site Smokstack. Somebody posted a picture of a fish butchering machine. I figure the guy that put that thing together ended up in a funny farm. Somebody said they had seen it work. You needed to wear a has mat suit when operating it.
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Mon Oct 05, 2020 5:26 pm
by windybob
Now that's funny.
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 2:20 am
by hwy8
The fish butchering machine reminds me that a long, long time ago, I worked with a guy who helped invent skinless hot dogs. He said the crew all worked 8 hours a day in a big refrigerator and wore fishing waders while standing in piles of hot dog meat and it lasted for over 6 months! Finally, they figured out that if they chilled the pipe that the meat shot out of to EXACTLY the right temperature, it would work; And so it did....
Man, how can people do such crazy stuff?
Why don't they act sensibly and stand in wind and weather on top of an old rickety tower, while trying to get a rusty, broken, and probably incomplete, 100 year old piece of farm machinery to pop out of its socket while you're yelling instructions down to someone in the pick-up who's playing the radio loud enough that he can't hear you anyway. And when, FINALLY, you've found the parts, and worked long hours while friends were drinking cold beverages and eating good barbecue, your finished project is SO pretty that it should go into the living room instead of outside. But, way up in the air where the birds sit, it spins, and the sun sometimes rises and sets on it, and it might even pump some cold water into your ladle on a blazing hot summer day, which runs down your chin and onto your shirt, and you start thinkin', "Which one in the pile am I goin' to do next?"
NOW, THAT'S SENSIBLE!
Burt
Re: learned how to pour babbitt
Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2024 6:07 am
by mtblah
Amen .