Neutronium95
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I insisted on gluing the grains, since I've heard of issues with motors CATOing under extreme acceleration, and wanted my hardware back in one piece. The method used shouldn't have resulted in any glue on the grain faces, just between the casting tubes and liner, and I don't really see any way that it could have compromised the motor.Okay, point taken. From the description of the failure, it sounded an awful lot like grain faces were inhibited, which could lead to the overpressurization I described.
As @mrwalsh85 mentioned, others have not had to bond grains on the K2050ST, so I found it curious that a failure was seen when the grains were bonded. Correlation? Yes. Causation? Maybe, maybe not.