Fw: Bearings

["John Burk" <joyseydevil@comcast.net>]

Babbit bearings can stand a brief loss of oil film with extreem HP where a
hard bearing would fail . Early engines used poured babbitt bearings because
they were cheap and worked with dip or gravity oiling .


Hi John

Are you a bearing historian or did you stay at a Holiday Inn Express last
night? LOL

I'm with you through the "babbit lined inserts". What's the story on them?

Otto