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Originally Posted by ursus
Back in the 60's I knew two guys that poured babbit as part of their routine automotive machine shop work. They used K.R. Wilson equipment and only did babbit work on Ford engines. When they later quit doing babbit the reason given was that the main bearing jigs were no longer usable after so many heating cycles with a torch and there wasn't enough volume to justify buying more jigs. Obviously, they preheated the bearing saddles.
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Only if they were using a cutting torch.
With out abuse, they will last Indefinitely!
My guess, there Babbitt was not lasting.
There is a well known Model A builder that did Babbitt, and inserts. I seen some of the work. He had to many Babbitt jobs come back, so now he only offers inserts.
Herm.