<< The round mark around the gear shown, is this the oil ring seal mark?

 You got me there. It is nothing to do with the rotor as the rotor orbits
 while it rotates.
  

The circular line close to the gear is the path of the inner oil scraper lip.

Lynn E. Hanover

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