New Britain herald., 1924-03-03

Is started along its way, also treated to find out if the steel is the right hardness. Finally that ball is ground down and down until you won't notice tany defect and it is sent on. l count l ed seven different tests through which that ball passes. In one process there are some girls turning these balls over with a paper on some ceiluloid. One side is white and you can see any defect. They are turned over and if 1 there is the slightest defect it is taken 1 out. After they 80 through that pro | cess they are examined under d mag
 nifying glass. 1 saw one Of these balls under a ma magnfying glass that masni- fled It 25 times. and you couldn't see ono defect in the whole surface. Then they move along groove with holes in il. the holes gradually getting d lit tie wider--one ten thousandths of an inch in 10 inches. and drop into re tainers-balls Of one size drop into on. retainer and a little farther on a little larger or smaller into another retainer They have got to be exactly one ten thousandth Of an inch differ ,nt as they roll down and so smooth that there's no defect. Ii is more delicate than making q watch. one workman told me that when that's 1 finally finished and you put little oil cn il it is so smooth and so slick that if a fly would fall on it he would fall off and break his neck l wanted him to show me. but he said there were no flies on Fafnir bearings; they couldn't stay on.
 You would think that that would be enough for accuracy, but that isn't enough. After this thing is assem- 1 Lied 1t is taken down and put through what they call the eccentri- city test. IL the diameter or the movement in the groove or anything is wrong with any one of those parts { there's q little dedicate indicator, like the ammetcr in the automobile, thai shows exactly anything wrong-if its diameter isn't just right. Then as if that isn't enough, they put it in an 1 electric machine and start it off and listen for noise--it must be noiseless also. Then when they are sent out, the guarantee Of Fafnir Bearing Co. goes with them. II it doesn't make good they will replace it without | charge. II there is any defect in the material or in the workmanship they will make It good. or course if the defect is from wearing or abuse that's another thing. The test to which these ball bearings are put is almost ruthless test; they must bc almost perfect. l have here the smallest one 1 that is made. Thtey told me that it
 was so delicate that if any dust got on it it2 would not run. 1T it is 1 dropped on the floor it would stop it. They are intended to be handled by | intelligent mon.
 "l want to make the religious ap-
 plcation or what l have seen mp 1 there. My friends, you and l are Christian men. God put us through
 the fires. There isn't man listening to me but what has come through 1 fires of testing. The Bible speaks
 about fiery trials. And the Apostle
 Peter says Think it not strange that i you are tried as by hre;' for that's
 what God intends to do---to try us a.s steel would be tried in the fire. And
 oh, my friends, after coming out of . the fire yon nave got to ring true. We
 arc all made little different may know your name, but you are made up Of body soul. and spirit and there's little different mixtures in
 each. That's personality. Each Of us has Il different disposition, a different character and different makeup.
 That's our material that goes through the fire and through the trials and through the tasts. and il must ring ! true. IT you are crooked you won get very far in this world. If you don't ring true yon arc sent back.
 There's a lot of fellows looking at Inc today that are not ringing true, and
 you will never E.t any further than
 you are if this old public finds that
 you are little crooked. You are not
 just the kind Of stuff you ought to be