Innumerable proportions of metals are marketed under the name of babbitt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference

But if you have no extra plug you must remove the first one and refill it with babbitt.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rough and Tumble Engineering] Reference

A commonly used babbitt is composed of 89 per cent tin, 8 per cent antimony and 3 per cent of copper.    From Wordnik.com.  [Oxy-Acetylene Welding and Cutting Electric, Forge and Thermit Welding together with related methods and materials used in metal working and the oxygen process for removal of carbon] Reference

By day you struggle with the German for "babbitt-lined bearing" (Weißmetallfutterlager, of course), by night you worry how you'll pay the bills.    From Wordnik.com.  [Google is to start translating poetry] Reference

The segments that partly envelop the cross-head pin and crank-pin, and are section lined in two directions, producing crossing section lines, or small squares, show that the brasses are lined with babbitt metal, which is represented by this kind of cross-hatching.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mechanical Drawing Self-Taught] Reference

Next in importance is its use in the making of solder and of babbitt or bearing metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

There seems to be much less wear between cast-iron and babbitt metal than between bronze and babbitt metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [Steam Turbines A Book of Instruction for the Adjustment and Operation of the Principal Types of this Class of Prime Movers] Reference

Team Anderson is still on course to arrive in San Francisco on July 9, as scheduled … assuming the babbitt cooperates, of course.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheels] Reference

Over one-third of the antimony consumed in the United States is alloyed with tin and copper in the manufacture of babbitt or bearing-metal.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

The father of the officer, Lieut. Ross, was a babbitt manufacturer in Leicester; he had been a very few months in business when the war broke out.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Training of Blind Soldiers in England] Reference

"That's a nut you ought to remember now it works on the babbitt of the counter-shaft" -- or something of the kind -- "and you must see to it regular.".    From Wordnik.com.  [The Motormaniacs] Reference

Roughly a third of the tin consumed within the United States goes into tin-plate, a third into solder and babbitt metal, and a third into miscellaneous uses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Economic Aspect of Geology] Reference

With a quick welding job in Tarrytown, N.Y., the Maxwell was up and running - until later that day, when a connecting rod bearing failed, necessitating the first of several babbitt repairs.    From Wordnik.com.  [Wheels] Reference

All elevator cables hereafter installed that pass through bevelled sockets, the ends returning and refitting into the same, shall have in addition lead or babbitt metal poured into the ends of the socket, to prevent the possibility of the cable's slipping.    From Wordnik.com.  [Acts and resolves passed by the General Court] Reference

In the dozen years following Mr. Porter built many engines with certain common characteristics -- i.e., high piston speed and revolutions, solid engine bed, and babbitt-metal bearings; but there was no electric driving until 1880, when Mr. Porter installed a high-speed engine for Edison at his laboratory in Menlo Park.    From Wordnik.com.  [Edison, His Life and Inventions] Reference

(thousandths) per inch of shaft diameter, double design clearance is often used as the point to re-babbitt a bearing.    From Wordnik.com. Reference