29-11-2017, 11:29 AM
(This post was last modified: 30-11-2017, 02:51 PM by Dennis Nicholas.)
Here is a duplicate of my post on the associated thread about refacing. Perhaps I should have only had one subject, but I could see 2 issues.....cutters for refacing and thrust washer supply. 
Alan....why would you not chose oilite? what technical reason? Here is blurb from Bowman .co.uk:- (just for interest the manufacturing process of sintering is the means where the metal has the pores into which the lubricant soaks)
Materials
Oilite bearings are manufactured in three standard materials.
1. Standard Oilite oil retaining tin bronze is the generally specified material. It gives good balance between strength, wear resistance, conformability and durability in operation. Ideal in a wide variety of applications where self-lubricating properties are required over a long period of time.
2. Super Oilite® is an iron copper material suited to high static loads and slow oscillatory motion.
3. Iron Oilite® are 100% iron oil-retaining bearings which provide an ideal solution in high stress low revolution applications.
Please see the Oilite® materials page for further technical details.
Dennis
Alan....why would you not chose oilite? what technical reason? Here is blurb from Bowman .co.uk:- (just for interest the manufacturing process of sintering is the means where the metal has the pores into which the lubricant soaks)
Materials
Oilite bearings are manufactured in three standard materials.
1. Standard Oilite oil retaining tin bronze is the generally specified material. It gives good balance between strength, wear resistance, conformability and durability in operation. Ideal in a wide variety of applications where self-lubricating properties are required over a long period of time.
2. Super Oilite® is an iron copper material suited to high static loads and slow oscillatory motion.
3. Iron Oilite® are 100% iron oil-retaining bearings which provide an ideal solution in high stress low revolution applications.
Please see the Oilite® materials page for further technical details.
Dennis