To: XBob
I just took another look. The ragged area is where it burned out. The dark color appears to be carbon and it probably fell out of a trash truck someplace.
That's what I see.
To: wirestripper
it probably fell out of a trash truck someplace.
LOL that I agree with, but notice the lighter of the dark colors on the upper right. Extremely regular.
And the raggedy part is what happens when you use a gasket with a smaller hole than the exhaust port. of course it could also be where the part was torn away, because of the leak sticking it to the part. However, look up at the dark part upper right and see how 'regular' it is, like it was sitting against the 'opening' to the cylinder, and how it corresponds to the last of the light, non leaking grey on the bottom, where it turns to white.
What ever it is, I don't think it could have come from the shuttle.
And this appears to be a 'use' defect (worn out) - not a 'blown up' defect,
But then stranger things have happened.
Well, i am going to give up this time wasting speculation.
We are both out of our areas of expertice.
249 posted on
02/05/2003 11:40:15 PM PST by
XBob
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