[Steam-engine] Oil Grooves/ Huber progress.

[Richard Strobel]

Congrats, Andy...pouring babbitt can be a lot of fun and is very forgiving. 
Now is possibly the time for some blueprint ink or black marker on the 
babbitt inserts and main bearing journals and see if total contact is made. 
Might be time to scrape.

   Please add enough shims so that the bearing cap bottoms out on the shims 
first and not the bearing surface.  I just chatted with a gentleman last 
night who broke a bearing cap doing the opposite...and then adjust/remove 
shims for proper clearance.

  Apoligize if I insulted your intelligence!!!

Good Luck in the future,
RickinMt.



> Good answer!  Thanks to everyone who wrote with an
> answer.  I have the grooves cut in the caps and the
> crank is fit.  There will be no grooves in the bottom.
>  I'll be assembling the rod, crosshead, and piston
> next.  Then I'll find out if I got the crank in the
> right place!  Pouring the crank bearings was the last
> big task that had to be done.  Now I have a lot of
> assembly ahead of me.  I'm really looking forward to
> pulling the throttle (which I also reassembled with
> new parts this weekend) the first time.