Just having read the thread about tinning etc and finding a link to Johnson Metals, I am wondering where I can find babbit metal.

It is that white metal that is used as bearing material in plain rotating bearings.

I restore old tractors and have several mono-cylinder tractors where there is a "Big End" that has a babbit metal bearing surface. Just to the moment I have managed to cobble together enough odds and ends to give a reasonable bearing surface.

However I would very much like to have a suuply for the next time I need to cast a bearing.

Anyone help please?

PS I should say that I am in France.

Pat

I believe there is differrent grades of babbitt.
If France is like the US there are scrap yards or farms with old machinery sitting in the woods. Check with the owners of this material for it as scrap.
Try google ing there must be suppliers in europe of metals as shipping babbitt froom the US could be expensive due to its weight.
New material is ussually quite a bit more expensive than used but you know exactly what it is.