Very interesting process.

Got to watch one of Bay View's owners work on a SS prop yesterday
morning - I asked if I could watch the process and he had no problem
with it.

It was pretty neat. First the edges were smoothed, then using ss wire
a bead was welded down the length of the leading edges of the prop,
that was smoothed and shaped, then the blades are adjusted for rake,
the prop goes through a series of grinding sand and belts (220/400 I
think he said), then the prop is checked again for balance and proper
cup and it goes through a series of polishing steps.

Very cool to watch. Took about an hour from a prop that was really
dinged to looking like new.

Impressive.

Impressive.

Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

S.

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:12 -0700, Corsair23
wrote:

Impressive.

Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

One was whacked pretty good - the others minor damage.

I'll have it back on Friday. I'm really not happy with the three
blade spare I have.

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:12 -0700, Corsair23
wrote:

Impressive.
Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

One was whacked pretty good - the others minor damage.

I'll have it back on Friday. I'm really not happy with the three
blade spare I have.


What about the two blader on top of your fishing beanie? :}

"HK" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:12 -0700, Corsair23
wrote:

Impressive.
Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

One was whacked pretty good - the others minor damage.

I'll have it back on Friday. I'm really not happy with the three
blade spare I have.


What about the two blader on top of your fishing beanie? :}


I bet he has the limited edition 3 blade one.........including an aluminum
plated beanie to protect against UFO's......personally autographed by Carl
Sagan. ;-)

On Tue, 3 Jul 2007 20:48:38 -0400, "JimH" ask wrote:


"HK" wrote in message
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Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:12 -0700, Corsair23
wrote:

Impressive.
Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

One was whacked pretty good - the others minor damage.

I'll have it back on Friday. I'm really not happy with the three
blade spare I have.

What about the two blader on top of your fishing beanie? :}

I bet he has the limited edition 3 blade one.........including an aluminum
plated beanie to protect against UFO's......personally autographed by Carl
Sagan. ;-)

Nope - regular tin foil hat with a propeller.

Plastic propeller.

And it's autographed by Dennis Kucinich - a propeller head of the
highest order.

On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 20:31:42 -0400, HK wrote:

Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:
On Tue, 03 Jul 2007 16:07:12 -0700, Corsair23
wrote:

Impressive.
Were all 4 blades dinged? .You did say it was a 4 blader, didnt you
(bad memory day).

One was whacked pretty good - the others minor damage.

I'll have it back on Friday. I'm really not happy with the three
blade spare I have.

What about the two blader on top of your fishing beanie? :}

That's plastic.