Mailing List flyrotary@lancaironline.net Message #30355
From: Russell Duffy <russell.duffy@gmail.com>
Subject: RE: [FlyRotary] Re: Another Turbo?
Date: Sat, 18 Feb 2006 17:25:56 -0600
To: 'Rotary motors in aircraft' <flyrotary@lancaironline.net>
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How confident are you in this diagnosis?   
Pretty certain. The seal was not broken. It had been impacted by "something" which crushed the groove a little and stopped it bouncing back. Whatever impacted it continued on around the housing, taking it's toll as it went. Considering that this occurred at the same time as the turbine wheel came off the shaft, I think we can be 100% sure it was the egg, then the chicken. If it was just a missing turbine blade, like this time, I might have suspected an imported object through the intake.
 
John,
 
No way I'm giving you 100% on this one.  Maybe 50%, unless I see verified fragments of turbine blade in the rotor housing :-)
 
Cheers,
Rusty (Van's is spoiling me)   
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