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    Jan 07, 2020 2 minutes

    More Uses for Lignum Vitae

    worked for Allis-Chalmers Turbine Division, formerly S. Morgan Smith, and we supplied many lignum vitae bearings for hydroelectric power plants. The pattern shop for the company stocked lignum vitae logs to produce these bearings. The shafts ran on the end grain of the wood,

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