The turbine-generators are equipped with Babbitt metal thrust bearing shoes and may be with elastic metal / plastic ones in future .

三峡水轮发电机采用了巴氏合金瓦今后还可能采用弹性 金属塑料 瓦 推力轴承。

DF-3 Elastic metal-plastics thrust washing is a composite bearing that takes filled PTFE as overlay metal wire as interlayer and connects them with steel bases by means of a special welding method .

DF-3弹性金属塑料瓦是以聚四氟乙烯为摩擦表面层，以 金属丝垫为中间层，通过特殊工艺牢固结合为一体，并通过一定的工艺过程与瓦基钎焊而成的一种 推力轴承。