Platigage and bearing clearances

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Chief simply cut rectangles from various thicknesses of BRASS shim stock, slightly nipped the corners, so as not to scratch the Babbitt, & used them as a GO-NO GO indicator!
Seems like a SIMPLE, QUITE ACCURATE way, to me!
Bill W.

[bettlesr]

Kohnke Rebabbitting
Herm:
As this was done over 8 years ago, I really don't remember how we did it. My father actually did the measuring as he was a mechanic from the 40's till he retired in 1990. Cut his teeth on T's and A's. Thanks for the clarification.
Dick

[Terry, NJ]

Bill, Have you tried to buy shim stock lately? Either steel or brass? I drove all over the county and hit every place that even looked like they might have shim stock and Nada. It's like White Lead, just a memory!
Terry

Originally Posted by BILL WILLIAMSON

Chief simply cut rectangles from various thicknesses of BRASS shim stock, slightly nipped the corners, so as not to scratch the Babbitt, & used them as a GO-NO GO indicator!
Seems like a SIMPLE, QUITE ACCURATE way, to me!
Bill W.

[BILL WILLIAMSON]

Terry,
FOIL would probably work, also.
Bill W.

[PC/SR]

Shim stock. McMaster-Carr. https://www1.mcmaster.com/#standard-shims/=1640xt4
Its good stuff to have around for making replacement shims to get clearance right, and just other stuff that comes up occasionally.

[H. L. Chauvin]

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FWIW:

Around the year 3,000 it would be interesting for modern day archaeologist in the year 3,000 to have a serious question unraveling a human mechanical/neurological mystery.

For example:

Even though by 1931, Ford produced 20,000,000 cars with Babbitt bearings, plus so many other car manufacturers such as Austin, Cadillac, Chandler, Chevrolet, Desoto, Dodge, Duesenburg, Durant, Buick, Elcar, Erskine, Essex, Graham, Hudson, Hupmobile, Kissle, laSalle, Lincoln, Locomobile, Marmon, Nash, Packard, Pierce-Arrow, Oakland, Pontiac, Reo, Studebaker, Stutz, Whipper, Willys .......... just to name a few ..... also produced millions of more cars with Babbitt bearings ......... why in 1948 was there a major change that effected human brains to where they could no longer "successfully" adjust Babbitt bearings without Plastigage?

First Guess: Global Warming altering brain cells.

Second Guess: ..... Hmmmmmmm!

[Kohnke Rebabbitting]

Originally Posted by Terry, NJ

Bill, Have you tried to buy shim stock lately? Either steel or brass? I drove all over the county and hit every place that even looked like they might have shim stock and Nada. It's like White Lead, just a memory!
Terry

McMaster-Carr, has anything you need Terry.

Don't use Steel, get .002, and .001 thousandths Brass.

Thanks,

Herm.

[Kohnke Rebabbitting]

Originally Posted by PC/SR

Shim stock. McMaster-Carr. https://www1.mcmaster.com/#standard-shims/=1640xt4
Its good stuff to have around for making replacement shims to get clearance right, and just other stuff that comes up occasionally.

OOPS, sorry Mr. PC., didn't catch your Post.

Herm.