Been awhile since I've posted found some cool places in Texas, and Oregon

[Aurium]

Some interesting finds from my last few weeks, been traveling a bit and found some good places in Texas, and Oregon.

The large metal bar appears to be an ingot of babbit, found this in an old school sports field, weight about 6-7 lbs.

The best part about my last few hunts is I've managed to get a couple other people into the hobby, and they're buying there own machines, especially after they got to try my V3. It kind of sells itself once you see what it can find.

 

[surf n turf]

Thats cool, dumb question whats a babbit?

 

[Thound]

It,s a boy wabbit!

 

[Rob (IL)]

A metal that was used in bearings.

 

[Aurium]

Babbitt metal is most commonly used as a thin surface layer in a complex, multi-metal structure, but its original use was as a cast-in-place bulk bearing material. Babbitt metal is characterized by its resistance to galling. Babbitt metal is soft and easily damaged, which suggests that it might be unsuitable for a bearing surface. However, its structure is made up of small hard crystals dispersed in a softer metal, which makes it a metal matrix composite. As the bearing wears, the softer metal erodes somewhat, which creates paths for lubricant between the hard high spots that provide the actual bearing surface. When tin is used as the softer metal, friction causes the tin to melt and function as a lubricant, which protects the bearing from wear when other lubricants are absent.

(ok that's the definition) My submariner buddy knew it right away, I had never heard of babbit.

So Rob is right.

I have to tell you though, coming out of the ground it looked like a large silver bar but since there was no purity stamp on it, I knew it was not likely to be silver. (still a cool find)