Re: What do you think of this Babbitt
' Now many people mistakenly beleave that the anchor holes in the block are to hold the babbitt from falling out, and it only works when you hold the block right side up. lol
Not true, the anchor holes ar there to keep the babbitt insert from spinning, as a notch on a modern bearing. If the babbitt isn't peened, those anchor don't hold anything in, they just bust out on the main part of the bearing.'
If, say the holes in the block were not there, would a peened babbitt job actually be loose and fall out, if block was turned upside down ?.
Does it only hold on at the hole spigots?
Just interested, I always assumed without any knowledge the babbitt was adhered similar as a solder job would be, all along the backface and edges.
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