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Jeff Spitzer wrote:

Walter Williams wrote:

  i have some OMC single rotors that are all aluminum.  the

side housings  i have been told have nickasil coating and the rotor housing
has tungsten carbide.  they are beautiful and show only .0005 wear.

The OMC side housings never had Nikasil.  The early ones had a band around
the outside where the seals run made from a molybdenum blend.  The newer
ones were A390 High-Sil aluminum with no coating at all.

Jeff Spitzer

What about titanium rotors Jeff?

Paul Lamar
 
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