[modeleng] Re: White Metal Bearing Material

Dave,

Steam cylinder oil seems to work fine on all of my locomotives, but then 
they are not full sized like your example by a long shot.  My bearings are 
all bronze Oilite® type so maybe that helps too.  The driver axle journals 
in my American 4-4-0 are Lear Seigler Teflon and should need no lubrication 
according to what I have read. My "Newbie Project" is automatically  lubed 
by leakage around the oscillating cylinders  Everything in the vicinity of 
the engine, including the primary drive chain, crank, frame floor and main 
bearings is always dripping with the gooey stuff.  If you doubt me, you can 
ask either Charles Brumbelow or Al Messer.  I have almost 5 gallons of what 
was the Cadillac of steam cylinder oils, Sharvania®.  I said WAS, because 
Sharvania is, alas, no more after being bought out by some other oil company 
who was not interested in the steam cylinder oil line.  I have had the 5 
gallons, minus what I have used, for about 25 years and it has not "gone 
bad"  as I have heard some of the newer "steam oils" doing.

Jesse in W. Tennessee where it kept trying to snow all day without success. 

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