Charlie and Tupper England wrote:

There's been a lot of discussion over the last few months about water cooled
turbos, turbine oil drainback, ceramic bearings, etc.

In the NASA pavilion at OSH a couple of years ago, they were hyping recent
research into high temperature oil-less bearings for turbines.  The advantages
in simplicity & reliability of applying the technology to turbochargers (if it
works) should be obvious.

Has anyone on this list seen any real world applications for the research shown
in these links?

http://www.grc.nasa.gov/WWW/Oilfree/coatings.htm

http://gltrs.grc.nasa.gov/reports/2000/TM-2000-209187-REV1.pdf

Charlie England

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