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<p>[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 4469565, member: 76316"]The bar is almost certainly Babbitt metal, a pourable (when molten) material used to line journal bearings, like connecting rod and main bearings in automobile and other internal combustion engines. Also used industrially in much larger journals, as in paper mills, etc.</p><p><br /></p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(alloy)" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(alloy)" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(alloy)</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="wlwhittier, post: 4469565, member: 76316"]The bar is almost certainly Babbitt metal, a pourable (when molten) material used to line journal bearings, like connecting rod and main bearings in automobile and other internal combustion engines. Also used industrially in much larger journals, as in paper mills, etc. [URL]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babbitt_(alloy)[/URL][/QUOTE]
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