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Howdy back Mister DeWolfe,
Yes we are of topic aren't we!
Well for a 52 years old your doing good. I'm a 59 year old today! I was called "BIG PHIL" when I was working but then again that was by an oriental man whom I called "LITTLE JIMMY". Call it "compensation"
You have read up well or you listen very well during your years.
I was in the Navy as a machinery repairman and made those bearing that are rolled under the propeller shafts. Then I worked a temp. position in the 80's for Edison power company.
It was my early young years that I worked on big machinery and manufacturing equipment. I got more into R & D in my older, slower years.
You described what happens with the oil cling except gravity plays a part on the location of the wedge.
The setting of the bearings in relation to the center of the shaft is one aspect of dealing with the stack up.
In the making of the babbitt bearings we put in an area called "cheeking" a pocket to deal with flow from the stack to oil supply/return grooves. Sort of eccentric but on a dynamic flowing term level.
The tight wire is the process of alignment. It is actually a steel wire strung from end to end and centered on the case housing.
Using a tone ringer and head phones.
We then use inside micrometers, completing a circuit touching from the bearing I.D. to the wire. We offset the bearings in the case to allow for the oil wedge. That makes the oil push the shaft to run in alignment in the housing to a driven load.
I have not rebuilt babbitted engines. To know if it is a allowed for on the inserts for journals or rod ends. The rods are probably to narrow. Just put in more flow.
Thats why I threw in. If a racing enthusiast might know?
Thanks for the chat and we are both amused, easily!
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