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Page from the 'Dragonettes' publication featuring articles on ball bearing retainers and Romanian culture.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 115\2\  scan0554
Date  1st November 1940 guessed
  
DRAGONETTES
Vol. XXII No. 4

NEW OIL-IMPREGNATED RETAINER
The Fafnir Bearing Company has recently developed, for specialized applications under unusual operating conditions, ball bearings incorporating retainers made of oil-impregnated bronze, which permit all further lubrication to be dispensed with.
This retainer is fabricated from a strong, die-pressed bronze, having a porous structure which forms a reservoir for oil retention—as much as 25% by volume. Microscopic pockets in the surface of the bronze actually hold oil, as well as maintain an oil film between the balls and retainer pockets. However, the porous structure of the bronze is such that the oil is retained in but very small amounts, enough for lubrication but not for any possibility of leakage.
First used on a large scale in the automotive industry—particularly in inaccessible clutch pilot bearings where no further means for lubrication is provided—operation has been uniformly successful, and definitely superior to the formerly used grease-packed bearings.
This type of retainer also lends itself to sub-zero applications wherein grease (of even the lightest consistency) makes for extremely high starting torque—and even with oil, unless used in extreme small quantities, a retardation or drag in the bearing elements results.
Laboratory tests dating back five years have laid the foundation for the application of this retainer material to ball bearings. Test bearings started in operation at that time are still running, without any further lubricant having been added, whatsoever—although they have been subjected to continuous, 24-hour-a-day, rotation under various speeds and loads.

FOR YOUR SCRAP BOOK
Marry, by all means! If you get a good wife you will become very happy; if you get a bad one, you will become a philosopher—and that is good for every man! —Socrates

DO YOU KNOW?
THAT
If you are foresighted enough to equip the axle of your wheelbarrow with Fafnir Ball Bearings, the reduction in your annual “muscle-rubbing” liniment bill may easily make up for the cost of the bearings.
Also, on construction jobs where fleets of wheelbarrows are used, the mounting of the wheels on quality ball bearings will materially increase production.

THAT
A Fafnir Grease-Shield Ball Bearing, of popular size, has run successfully under test for well over 15,000 hours when packed with only 1.4388 GRAMS of pure neutral grease.
This may help to drive home the oft-repeated caution of all anti-friction bearing manufacturers, that ball bearing over-heating and failure is more often caused by too much grease than by too little.

NEW LITERATURE DESCRIBES FAFNIR LINESHAFT UNITS
For a handy reference, we recommend the latest file-size folder devoted to the entire line of Fafnir Ball Bearing Lineshaft Boxes. Explaining the benefits to be derived from the conversion of plain to ball bearing boxes, this folder also gives complete specifications on all units. Spacing data for mounting hanger boxes with couplings, standard keyseats for shafts, horsepower of shafting and belting, and suggestions for lubrication are likewise included. Requests for copies will be acknowledged promptly.

She was only the optician's daughter—two glasses and she made a spectacle of herself.

PROBLEM OF THE MONTH
A farmer has three sons and ninety eggs. He gives 10 eggs to the first son, 30 eggs to the second son, and 50 eggs to the third son, with the instructions that they must all sell their supply of eggs at the same rate (or rates), but return with the same amount of money. Neither eggs nor money must be exchanged by the three boys.
What was the sum of money (identical in all three cases) returned by each son to his father.

SOLUTION TO LAST MONTH'S PROBLEM
Let A = Al's age now
Let B = Bob's age now
Let C = Carl's age now
When Carl was ⅔ of his present age the following equation can be set up.
5 + ⅔ C + (⅓) (⅔ C) = 1½ (⅔ C)
5 + ⅔ C + 2/9 C = C
∴ C = 45
Since ⅔ of 45 is 30 (Carl's age ⅓ of his life ago) and because Bob was ⅓ as old as Carl at that time, Bob was 10. Al, at that time, was 5. Since these were Al's and Bob's ages 15 years ago Al is now 20 and Bob is 25.

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their water jars to the fountain, where they linger to chatter with the young men who swarm like bees around a honey pot; mothers gossip behind their hands as they watch their half-naked babies playing with little pigs and puppies in the dooryard, and all the small boys have gone swimmin’.
Later the young folk will gather to dance the Hora, that ancient dance of courtship and love which is the delight of all the Balkans. Clasping hands in a long line, they circle to wild music from a fiddle and a flute, dancing faster and faster till the line dissolves into flying couples who whirl and caper in a mad ecstacy of shifting color.

Medieval fortified church with wooden gallery on the tower from which to pour boiling oil on the enemy.

anxious maidens. In certain valleys the mourners eat food on the graves of their dead and pour upon them a libation of wine, lest the soul hunger and thirst on its long pilgrimage.
Old cities on their hilltops still keep their medieval splendor of church and castle and moated wall. Fortified monasteries cherish within their gates those exquisite churches, centuries old, upon whose outer walls are frescoed the whole company of heaven in robes of faded red and gold against a pale blue sky.

“Marriage, my daughter, is a very serious matter”.

In Romania there are customs so old that history does not know their beginnings. For many centuries several thousand people have climbed, at the summer solstice, to the Marriage Market which is held on a lonely peak. Here the young men choose their brides from a smiling row of
Lovely Romania lies quietly under the summer sun, a picture of peace, but she is torn internally by racial hatreds and political intrigue. No one can foresee the future, but whatever happens the peasant will still be his country’s mainstay. Wars may come and go, but he will cling to the black earth which he loves, and through the seasons’ unceasing round he will bring forth from it bread for the people’s need. For he is the backbone of the nation.
  
  


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