On Mon, 3 Oct 2005 19:46:37 -0400, "Glenn Ashmore"
wrote:

I am headed for Annapolis Thursday at o'dark thirty. One priority is to
find a 3 bladed feathering prop. The candidates a Martec Auto Stream ,
MaxProp, VariProp and Gori.

Anyone have anything good or bad to say about any of them? Any others you
would recommend I look at?


I am thinking that you are up to making a plaster or wood blade
pattern and hub pattern, and having them cast at a bronze foundry and
contracting a local machine shop to mill the slots and blade roots and
pivot pins. Polish it yourself, even?

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

"Brian Whatcott" wrote in message
...

I am thinking that you are up to making a plaster or wood blade
pattern and hub pattern, and having them cast at a bronze foundry and
contracting a local machine shop to mill the slots and blade roots and
pivot pins. Polish it yourself, even?

Brian Whatcott Altus OK

No thank you. I saw a TV show once with Paul Luke giving a tour of making
one of his props. An amazing amount of work goes into those things. The
tooling to cut the gears would cost more than a prop. They are beautifully
machined and built like a tank but they are essentially hand made one offs.

--
Glenn Ashmore

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