Babbit Alloys.

[dale2242]

Does anyone know anything about thermo-electric Babbitt alloys?
Any info would be appreciated.
The ingot says Electric Babbit Metals Company.

 

[fiver]

man,, Babbitt is well it has tin in it.
it could be almost all tin or 10% tin.
there's a Babbitt for every purpose on the planet.... including engine bearings back 100 years ago.... and turbine bearings still today.

 

[Rick]

There is no set recipe for Babbit, customers order what they want from the foundries. Probably near as many different Babbit recipes as there is people who ordered it.

 

[JonB]

I had this vintage wood Lathe I got from a neighbor, back in the 1980s. He was a retired preacher at the time. He said it was his grand father's Lathe...so I'm thinking it could have been from 1900ish, no electric motor, it had a wooden pulley that was driven by a flat leather belt off a steam engine. The Lathe frame/chassis was all Oak, it looked like it was hand made by a kit, ordered from a 1900 Mechanix Illustrated magazine. Anyway, the Headstock had poured babbit bushings. Quite interesting. That's my working knowledge of Babbit.