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Babbitt's Anti-Attrition Metal

with 24 potassium, the alloy will have
with 24 potassium, the alloy will have

Melt 4 pounds copper, add by degrees 12 pounds best quality Banca tin, 8 pounds regulus of antimony, and 12 pounds more tin while the composition is in a melted state. Metals. A bronze composed of seven parts Use of Petroleum in Turning After the copper is melted and 4 or 5 pounds of copper, 4 of zinc, and 1 of tin, has been FLUXES. found to be so hard as to be dificult to work, volumes each tin, lead, and bismuth, is quite and yet of considerable value in certain ways liquid at 150° Fahr. In parts by weight, the above would be 224 parts cadmium, 5171 certain ways liquid at 150° Fahr. In parts by weight, the when worked. Various methods have been above would be 224 parts cadmium , 517 attempted, aiming at effecting a ready work- lead, 295 tin, and 1050 bismuth. (Scc No. work-lead, 295 tin, and 1050 bismuth. (Sce No. ing of this alloy, and M.

Bechstein has recent- 52). An alley of 3 volumes of cadmium ly, by soaking the alloy in petroleum , attained with 4 cach of tin, lead, and bismuth , fuses at this desirable end. 15340 Fahr, and an alloy of 1 equivalent of

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