[SEL] Babbitt Lapping Compound

[Elden DuRand]

Rick:

If it will take place of scraping a bearing, I'm for it!  I can still remember how my muscles ached the day after a friend and I scraped the mains in my American LaFrance 570 cubic inch 4-banger!

We did it with the engine in the chassis and had to bench press that crankshaft about a hundred times before I was satisfied that we had a good fit.

They say to not get it into ball bearings and, although I didn't read the detailed instructions, I think I would clean the heck out of the bearings before final assembly.

Take care - Elden 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com
> [mailto:sel-bounces at lists.stationary-engine.com]On
>  Behalf Of Richard
> Strobel
> Sent: Wednesday, October 31, 2007 05:28 PM
> To: sel
> Subject: [SEL] Babbitt Lapping Compound
> 
> 
> 
>   Howdy;
> Heard about this for quite some time now from a 
> friend, who's friend uses it 
> on Model A's and such.
> 
>   Has anyone tried this and if so, did you have 
> the warm fuzzy feelin'?
> 
> http://www.newmantools.com/lapping/time.htm
> 
> RickinMt.