Used in shipboard applications.īabbitts are manufactured to ASTM-B23, SAE J460, AMS, Military and Customer Specifications. High quality lead based babbitt has excellent corrosion properties. Works well with thin bearings of light running machinery with light to medium pressures such as compressors, electric motors, pumps and stationary engine parts. General purpose leaded babbitt for machine shop requirements. Primarily used as a backing or filler material. Low melting temperature and easy pouring make this leaded alloy a good all around babbitt.Įconomy priced leaded alloy designed especially for light loads and slow speed applications. Contains lead.ĭesigned as a cost saver to Planer Knife Babbitt. Applications include various light duty work loads. Meets: ASTM B-23, Grade 7, with the exception of no added ArsenicĮngineered for chipper knife backing. Excellent alloy where Babbitt speeds are low to medium (600 RPM max) with uniformly heavy loads. Applications include diesel engine bearings, rock crushers, and other machinery with heavy pounding. Used in moderately heavy pressures or reciprocating motion. Meets: ASTM B-23, Grade 2Įxtremely tough and durable lead-free alloy.
May substitute for any lead based Babbitt. Applications include electric motors, engines, high speed saws, etc. Instantly acclaimed for its insight, humor, and passion, this book is changing the way America perceives its working poor.May be used for all bearing surfaces requiring a hard white metal where conditions are moderately severe and speeds are high. The way Nickel and Dimed relates to History. The way society views minimum wage workers. Problems that face people in low-class economic order. Ehrenreich’s experiences and its relation to society and History. "Nickel and Dimed" reveals low-wage America in all its tenacity, anxiety, and surprising generosity - a land of Big Boxes, fast food, and a thousand desperate strategies for survival. Nickel and Dimed, On (Not) Getting By in America. And one job is not enough you need at least two if you intend to live indoors. She soon discovered that even the "lowliest" occupations require exhausting mental and physical efforts. But how can anyone survive, let alone prosper, on $6 to $7 an hour? To find out, Ehrenreich moved from Florida to Maine to Minnesota, taking the cheapest lodgings available and accepting work as a waitress, hotel maid, house cleaner, nursing-home aide, and Wal-Mart salesperson. She was inspired in part by the rhetoric surrounding welfare reform, which promised that any job equals a better life. Millions of Americans work for poverty-level wages, and one day Barbara Ehrenreich decided to join them. Item #253435 ISBN: 0805063897 The "New York Times" bestseller, and one of the most talked about books of the year, Ni"ckel and Dimed" has already become a classic of undercover reportage. EHRENREICH, BARBARA Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
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