Salt for Rebabbiting

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antonio conde Active Contributor Join Date: Jan 2011 Location: Mexico, D. F. Posts: 14	Salt for Rebabbiting 01/07/2011 12:51 PM
	what dissolved salts are used for make a base for rebabbitting bearings. __________________ SALTS FOR BABBITING
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Rorschach Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 3403 Good Answers: 150	#1 Re: salt for rebabbiting 01/07/2011 2:13 PM
	None. The process is to machine the steel shell with a fine "phonograph" finish, clean/degrease with caustic soda (to remove cutting fluids and grease), rinse in water, build/set up your dams and fill gaps with lampblack, then spin up the shell while heating it to pouring temp then pour the babbitt. the thinner the babbitt, the higher the load bearing capacity (up to a point. at some point you have to go to a harder babbit like a cadmium based one.) Used to work at a place that made babbitted steel mill roll bearings. __________________ Who is John Galt?
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kwcharlie Power-User Join Date: Jan 2010 Location: Houston off/on-shore @ Oil Patch Posts: 223 Good Answers: 2	#2 In reply to #1 Re: salt for rebabbiting 01/10/2011 12:26 PM
	GA friend, short, to the point, KISS. Wouldn't know myself if you were OT but knowing you am 99.999% sure it's a GA __________________ Why do they make manhole covers round? so they won't fall in [before asking "Who is John Galt?"]
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Rorschach Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 3403 Good Answers: 150	#3 In reply to #2 Re: salt for rebabbiting 01/10/2011 1:02 PM
	Used to work at a machine shop over off Lockwood and Clinton Dr. called Forsyth machine (the buildings and machines are now owned by NOV) that was bought by Mesta Machine back when US Steel ran the Baytown steel mill. Then US Steel shuttered the place then Mesta went out of business and the shop got spun off on it's own. We still manufactured/remanufactured babbitted hydrodynamic steel mill roll bearings per both Mesta's design and Morgan's design as well. We also remanufactured rolls for paper and aluminum mills too. Dunno what happened to all the prints they had of every steel mill Mesta ever built dating back to the early 1900's along with the roll lathes and roll grinders that Mesta built to support the mills. Some of those prints were so fragile you couldn't even hardly get them out of the hanging file without tearing them. __________________ Who is John Galt?
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Rorschach Guru Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Spring, Texas Posts: 3403 Good Answers: 150	#4 Re: Salt for Rebabbiting 01/10/2011 1:06 PM
	You wouldn't by chance work at Alto Hornos would you? We used to manufacture your bearings before Forsyth went out of business.... __________________ Who is John Galt?
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