babbit
Collocations
5ADJ.
best, main, silver, smallest, used
VERB + BABBIT
set
BABBIT + NOUN
metal, shaft
PREP.
on
ADV.
obviously, then
Definitions
noun
Nonstandard spelling of babbitt.
What is babbit metal? Why, it is an alloy composed of copper, tin and antimony. The quantities of each used vary with the toughness or hardness of the metal desired; and if my memory serves me right, this allow was named after Mr. Babbit, who was the inventor and patentee of a metal composed of the above-named metals.
The materials used in the manufacture of the coin were silver and babbit metal.
verb
Nonstandard spelling of babbitt.
The caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a negative of the interior of the frame. It has two sets of bearings, c d and e f, which are at right angles to each other, and which set in the longitudinal and transverse bearings that have been made and "Babbited" in the cast frame, and thus steady and hold it.
[…] a T mandrel centering in the cylinder or recess bored in the head of the frame or bed being used to babbit the main shaft boxes, this mandrel being provided with collars properly located so as to establish the length of the babbited surface in the box […]
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6What is babbit metal? Why, it is an alloy composed of copper, tin and antimony. The quantities of each used vary with the toughness or hardness of the metal desired; and if my memory serves me right,
WiktionaryThe materials used in the manufacture of the coin were silver and babbit metal.
WiktionaryTo pack the box, first insert next to the ring I a ring of round asbestos packing, then the smallest set of babbit metal rings; then insert alternately two coils of asbestos and the next smallest babb
WiktionaryThe caps for these journal-boxes or bearings may be Babbited by this same jig, and they would, of course, exactly conform to the other portions of the bearings in the frame. […] This drilling jig is a
Wiktionary[…] a T mandrel centering in the cylinder or recess bored in the head of the frame or bed being used to babbit the main shaft boxes, this mandrel being provided with collars properly located so as to
WiktionaryCrosshead pin boxes cannot be babbited in place, so it is obviously best to babbit the boxes on a mandrel of cast iron and of such shape that when ready to use it will resemble part of the crank disk
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