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I really can't see aeration and system pressure losses as being significant down sides.
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Time and studies will tell.
Kirk, It sounds like you've made your mind up. I believe that decisiveness is a key to anything, so it looks like stage 1 is complete for you.
Charles and I had our version of the DOF in 2007, the studies that we did then, and the data that we collected are the reasons why we do not support a DOF when being utilized with the LN Ceramic hybrid bearing. We did this when having a difficult time extracting OEM dual row bearings, hoping that it would be an alternative to a retrofit, which at the time seemed was not an easy process.
The mistake we made then was not patenting the procedure. We've learned from our mistakes, and trust that from this point forward we'll not only protect the things that we plan to bring to market, but also competing technologies, even if we don't prefer them, or have any plan to bring them to market.
Let us know how the DOF install goes.
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What is more, your new 'solution' is also not supported by a large number of installations over long periods of time.
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Been there and done that before... Remember, we were the guys getting chastised here on the forums for "a retrofit" back in the day. Back then any retrofit wasn't accepted and people basically made these same statements about anything that we did.
Thats what happens when you pioneer something.