Timken wheel bearings

Nickel would be what I want. Brass is really too soft. I agree.

There used to be or should still be a bearing out fit in Richmond VA but I cannot remember if it was or was not a Timkin.

IF you visit Google Books dating back 70 plus years you will have the original publication story on the entire Timkin Bearing Company. One of the very best promotions ever done was a large steam engine called "4 Aces" due to the number 1111. This engine weighed very heavy with coal tender and everything was bearing equipped and I mean EVERYTHING.

Three woman on a standard one inch rope tied to the forward coupler was enough to roll the engine one day for the public to marvel at.

When I did bearing rebuilds back in Vo-tech I recall a form of very very heavy red grease used for some of them I don't know where I can find more of that today or even if they still make it. If I recall, that stuff had the potential to be really kaboom.

 

Really think hit one hammer with the other is a bad idea, hardened steel shatters. I worked with a old guy who did this and lost vision in a eye.

 

Mythbusters tried this:

Finding: BUSTED
Explanation: After watching Jamie Hyneman mold metal with two hammers for various MythBusters projects, concerned viewers wrote in with a warning: Hammer safety instructions note that metal smashing against metal could shatter the tools and send lethal steel shards flying.

MythBusters Tory Belleci, Grant Imahara and Kari Byron hammered some hammers together to resolve whether the steel-wielding Hyneman was truly tinkering with trouble. As a precautionary measure, they built a two-armed robot to do the dirty work. Pounding down at 16 meters per second, which was the same swinging speed Tory clocked, the robot failed to break any hammerheads.

To up the odds of breakage, the MythBusters case-hardened the hammers. Hammerheads heated to red- or white-hot temps and dipped in carbon-rich motor oil absorb the liquid's excess carbon, which gives metal its brittle quality. But the super-stiff hammers still didn't snap on impact, busting the blacksmithing myth.

 

If you consider material in Nature that contains a specific gravity and mass, as well as; a specific hardness factor. If you have enough force of one kind of object versus another object of a different material, the outcome will be determined by many factors. But at the end of the impact there is a good chance you can spall off material that is found to be soft and people get hurt or killed when that happens.

I had a piece of stone probably limestone in one of my steers one day in Union Bridge and it was annoying because you did not have power steering in them old days and felt that stone, scrape scrape scrape ugh. Moving that steering wheel with some force. I took a hammer got under there like a really stupid dumbkoft and took a whack at it.

I lost the rest of that working day but the doctors said I was lucky in between needles with pain medicine and other needles with string.

I'm telling you I used up 8 of my 9 lives for being so stupid in life, trucking in particular. I don't know why I continue on LOL.

 

The new term is "final assembly."
The parts are made all over......mostly in 3rd world countries .

 

Here in America KW2000's were a personal favorite only because we never did buy the very large righteous W900's with Studio extended sleepers back in the day. Actually the monster Areodynes. They took the industry by storm.

The KW does a good quality but are kind of... myopic in using somewhat lighter materials that rip off easily when you are fighting terrain trying to get that trailer into the dock without getting stuck and ripping off all of those Skirts.

I hate the way that last paragraph came out. Im sure you Aussies in OZ will laugh some today.

Have a wonderful day. Good luck!

BTW, we better hurry up and Colonize other Planets in our System because last I checked we are fixing to run out of 3rd world countrys willing to work at 10 cents a hour. When everyone is in modern living standards as we are here in America today... what not? RObots?

 

Can you tell me (And others) Why cab overs are being built?

Remember that I have a love and hate relationship with Cabovers in the past. You think with Oz being 3000 miles of dirt to roam free, you don't need no Cabover to worry about.