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Use bolts to hold parts together while welding to reduce the metal from warping and bending.

I have assembled the turbine and it seems to be too tight. I'm not sure what is hitting, but it doesn't want to spin.

There needs to be a way to adjust the horizontal pressure on the bearings.

The housing diameter is too small and hits the edges of the disks.

The input mount 2 does not fit the 1-1/4" SS pipe nipple.

When the bearing pipe is slip rolled, the length is too long to fit inside the hole in the end plate. I had to grind it down to reduce the length.

The bearing compression mount needs to somehow be vertially/horizontally adjustable so the axles are aligned and the disks are parallel to the inside of the housing.

Duplicate drawings for Fusion 360

Increase the diameter of the exhaust hole to handle a 1/2" NPT thread.

Remove the notch for the square stock on the axle. Just increase the size of the square hole in the disks so the square stock can sit on the tangent of the axle. Weld it into place.

This requires one fewer operations.

Change the axle design to not require any lathe work.

The curves are a pain in the neck to weld! Remove them. Replace with more straight lines.

The diameter of tube end plate is too large to fit inside the bearing pipe.

The exhaust mount 2 does not fit the 1-1/4" SS pipe nipple.

Housing5 is currently 1/2" thick and there are 2 of them.

It turns out that it is 50% cheaper to use 2x 1/4" thick plates instead of 1x 1/2" thick. It requires extra welding.

the bolt holes in housing 1 need to be at least 5mm

I am only swapping these out because I purchased 1-1/4" pipe nipples.

Overlap the exhaust plate top with the exhaust plate to improve the weld joint

Housing 1 and housing exhaust are a pain in the neck to weld.

They look cool being round, but it adds no value. Make them rectangles so they are easier to weld.

make housing1 and housing exhaust wider so they overlap the two bolt holts at the bottom. Then use these as a way to correctly align the plates.