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Originally Posted by masraum
Yeah, my post was very sarcastic. It's a bad thing and even a tiny out of balance is a huge deal at 50k rpm.
I'm not 100% sure if this is a joke or not, but I'd love to see the aftermath. I suspect this thing will either just sieze or grenade in a spectacular fashion sooner or later (probably much, much sooner.
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Okay, good to know I hadn't fallen down in the garage and struck my head. That turbo job is pretty scary looking... My dad's commercial truck (Caterpillar inline engine, turbo) has a 1/4 or so thick pipe on the turbo exhaust outlet side. The turbo finally died at about a million or a million and half (had been rebuilt in the past). Boy did that die spectacularly. The rotars just fragmented and when they went out the exhaust, they left huge dents in the 1/4 thick pipe. Not only did Dad wind up replacing the turbo, he also had to replace that section of pipe...
I would be horrified to see what this fellow's handi-work would do...
angela