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Default Bronze or Stainless?


jlrogers±³© wrote:
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Bart wrote:
What are the advantages and disadvantages of each?


I'd use a bronze prop, that way if it strikes something it will break.

Joe

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What? No shear pins?


You mean Woodruff keys in the coupler?

Yeah I have them, but they do not do much in the way of dampening the
blow of non-rotational strikes.
If you have a boat with a strut housed cutlass I'd never go stainless.

Joe



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