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rembree(at)sympatico.ca
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:41 am Post subject: 3 Blade Wooden Props

I had an Aymar Demuth prop and always parked it in the horizontal 

position to prevent moisture from migrating to the low end. I am just 

wondering what you do with a 3-blade wooden prop and if anyone has 

noticed any balance changes over time.

Roger Embree

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klwerner(at)comcast.net
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Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 7:57 am Post subject: 3 Blade Wooden Props

Here is what you can do: You  write little numbers on each blade (1+2+3). Every time the prop stops you put it  into a Y position. That way the moisture from the upper two blades runs  down to the vertical bottom blade and eventually drops to the ground by gravity.  You alternate the bottom blade between 1, 2, 3 every time the engine stops. All  you have to do is remember which blade # is due at the next  shutdown.

 Or, just don't worry about it at  all...

  

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Mark Phillips in TN

Joined: 10 Jan 2006
Posts: 431
Location: Columbia, TN

Posted: Sun May 20, 2007 2:38 pm Post subject: 3 Blade Wooden Props

In a message dated 5/20/2007 10:43:06 AM Central Daylight Time, rembree(at)sympatico.ca writes:

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		  am just 

wondering what you do with a 3-blade wooden prop and if anyone has 

noticed any balance changes over time. 	


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 Catto seals his props in a layer of fiberglass and bonds an aluminum plate on the back where it bolts up.  They are well sealed and he told me you don't really need to check it every xx hours for bolt torque.  I have checked mine after Phase I and each annual, and the bolts have never loosened.  Seems like a waste of safety wire...

  

 Can't speak for other brands, but Performance Props was the only other builder of wood 3-blades when I got my Catto, but there may be others-

  

 Mark

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