Dear Niels,

Hi Doug!

I hope you had a successful trip. Traveling abroad usually gives me twice as
much work to do when I return.

Ha-ha... I know what you mean!

I took your advise and was able to remove the compressor wheel retaining nut
easily  with the help of an pneumatic driven wrench. The compressor wheel
however appears to be epoxied on.

It is heat shrunk on.. you can heat the impeller with hot air, and

It should come off nice and clean.

There is a greenish residue around the
compressor shaft. This could be the remains of the "Locktite" used on the
retaining nut however.

Yes, it's harmless

This point along with the my inability to spilt the
case open is becoming very  frustrating.  I really want to move ahead with
my turbo-compounding research but have been stalled for 10 days now.

We should have given you the charger in parts, maybe...

Please
advise in detail terms the steps needed to split the case open and remove
the compressor wheel.

Forgive me for not coming back to you before, but I have some major
OEM clients to attend to, and was also traveling...

I need to do this to determine what options I have to
make another pulley shaft as well as understand the manner needed to input
power to the compressor wheel shaft.

Will look into this ASAP and get back to you!

Sincerely

Doug Fir
Envirotech Inc.

Paul

I got a note back from the engineer today.  If he was working for my
customer he would be shot.  Reading between the lines the message is wait,
we have much more important customers to deal with at this time. I called
them and said as much.  Tomorrow I should hear something.  Their units are
selling very well but their sales staff is comprised of engineers.  I have
seen this scenario before and it usually means the president is an engineer
minded as well and doesn't know how to market.  Patience it will sort out.

Cheers

Doug

Yep. Last thing you want is an engineer in sales. They would just as soon talk
the customer out of buying the product as they would talk them into  buying it :)

Paul Lamar ...No rotor no motor.

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