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Studebaker George

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Dec 19, 2009, 4:14:26 PM12/19/09
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OK all, suggestions for this unique service? Favorites or one of the
well known ones?
Studebaker George

mbstude

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Dec 19, 2009, 4:36:04 PM12/19/09
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What the heck are you workin' on that has babbitts??

Studebaker George

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Dec 19, 2009, 4:39:38 PM12/19/09
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LOL....well Matthew, I recon you will just have to come to the Feb.
meeting and find out..<G>....
HINT: a ghost car that has 'surfaced'...
Studebaker George

Deepnhock

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Dec 19, 2009, 5:59:50 PM12/19/09
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Talk to the vintage farm tractor guys...
Then...
Get out and do it yourself...
http://gasengine.farmcollector.com/Equipment/BABBITT-CONNECTING-ROD-BEARINGS.aspx

Studebaker George

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Dec 19, 2009, 6:16:56 PM12/19/09
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A lot easier to send it off to the Babbitt Pot..<G>...
Just seeing if anyone had any more 'local' favorites.
Studebaker George
Hmmm. I do have a friend that melts down all his old tire weights and
casts his fishing sinkers...<G>

Deepnhock

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Dec 20, 2009, 7:57:45 AM12/20/09
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Nothing wrong with that...
I still have my dad's sinker molds...
It was a winter tradition to melt lead (in the 1 car garage/shop we
had in Illinois) and make sinkers.
Today I think back on the effects lead fumes have on
children...hmmmmm?
We used to fish in the rip-rap fill my the channel marker lights for
the lake freighters in the St. Mary's river in the UP.
The current meant you needed a good sized sinker.
With three munchkins and smart Rock BAss, we were forever getting
snagged.
My dad used to put our sinkers on with rubber bands.
He used to say he saved about 50% of the snelled hooks that way.
While strange.. Those are some of the best memories a kid could
have...
Sneakin' down the edge of an underwater rock...feeling the edge and
dropping over it...
Nibble/tug...Nibble tug...WHAM!
Got him!
Jeff

keith_k...@wed.dresser.com

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Dec 20, 2009, 5:42:51 PM12/20/09
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Try contacting Egge Machine. They do re-babbiting and will cast new
pistons, etc., for impossible to get vintage applications.
http://www.egge.com/

KK

Studebaker George

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Dec 21, 2009, 6:38:48 AM12/21/09
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Thanks, there are many out there but I was hoping that someone had
some first hand experience with them. I sent some to Babbitt Pot long
ago and their service was top notch so maybe they will get the nod.
There don't seem to be any close to me (N. FL).
Jeffy, my buddy is now casting his own 'leadheads' and then painting
them for fishing off the flats here. He is getting pretty good at
doing them!
Having grown up on the water (rivers and the Gulf of Mexico) I have a
gazillion fishing memories...and many memories of patching together
old outboards...learning as I went and getting lessons from some of
the 'old timers'.
Studebaker George

29pres8

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Dec 21, 2009, 7:39:38 AM12/21/09
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George, too bad you are not up here in North east...we are still
pouring in the garage,I was taught by my father in 1974....we are now
using DZL rather then the old regular babbitt.A set of mains was just
completed for a 1928 Packard 8 roadster.As for the dangers, Dad used a
glove made from abestos, handmade..still have it, still use it.....try
the DZL next time you pour....Egges is the best ,using them since my
father started with the old man Nels Egge, now I work with this
son...The SOB in New England.....21 sp six tourer and lots of Pres 8
parts..sobennet@maine.rr.com

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