About Rod

Rod has been employed as an automotive and diesel machinist since 1970. In 1989 he began pouring babbitt for his own antique engines, and now provides full-time antique engine services to a customer base which spans 43 states and 3 Canadian Provinces. He has also received inquiries from England, Japan and New Zealand. Rod offers complete antique engine machining, and uses only tin-base babbitt. Equipment in use at Gaffrey Babbitting includes:

Hub City insert boring machine
2 Hub City portable line-boring machines
2 Hub City rod boring machines
IDL guide and seat equipment
Iron tite pressure tester
KRW press
Sioux valve equipment
2 South Bend lathes

Starrett micrometers
Storm NK6 boring bar 3" diameter column X 18" long
Storm NK6 boring bar 3.437" diameter column X 27" long
Storm NK6 boring bar 3.437" diameter column X 18" long
Storm Vulcan 15 crank grinder
Sunnen cylinder hone
Sunnen pin hone
Thermostatically controlled babbitt pots

2 Tobin Arp SB insert boring machines
Tobin Arp TA14 line-boring machine
Van Norman 222 rod machine
2 Van Norman 232 rod machines
2 Van Norman boring bars
Van Norman rotary broach
Vernon mill

Rod with a 75hp Fairbanks Morse semi-diesel	Rod with a 60 hp Fairbanks engine and generator.