Propeller finishing diameter 40mm (1.6").
2 blades of the prop were slightly off regarding the diameter....It was starring at me every time I looked at the propeller.......so I needed to address.
The problem is You can't heat 2 blades without melting the solder of all the others.
I took a piece of pipe turned the inner diameter to the required diameter of the propeller 40 mm in my case.
Made a support for the blade roots, mounted the propeller on the jig with the root support, put the pipe over the propeller, filled the casing with sand halve way the propeller height, wetted the sand with water and heated everything up. When everything was hot enough I adjusted the blades till they touched the pipe casing and let everything cool down again. Put the propeller on the lath, turned the lath on, and I saw a perfect propeller NO MORE STARING.
While I was doing that I thought lets finish this thing........I saw on some pictures that sometimes the propeller of the AKULA's is provided with zinc anodes.....I casted some anodes with use of solder, they are approxiatly 1.5mm in diameter, and glude them on the hub.
Now the propeller can go into the finished box.
This pic showing the prop of a KILO class I used it as an example for the anodes.
Grtz,
Bart
2 blades of the prop were slightly off regarding the diameter....It was starring at me every time I looked at the propeller.......so I needed to address.
The problem is You can't heat 2 blades without melting the solder of all the others.
I took a piece of pipe turned the inner diameter to the required diameter of the propeller 40 mm in my case.
Made a support for the blade roots, mounted the propeller on the jig with the root support, put the pipe over the propeller, filled the casing with sand halve way the propeller height, wetted the sand with water and heated everything up. When everything was hot enough I adjusted the blades till they touched the pipe casing and let everything cool down again. Put the propeller on the lath, turned the lath on, and I saw a perfect propeller NO MORE STARING.
While I was doing that I thought lets finish this thing........I saw on some pictures that sometimes the propeller of the AKULA's is provided with zinc anodes.....I casted some anodes with use of solder, they are approxiatly 1.5mm in diameter, and glude them on the hub.
Now the propeller can go into the finished box.
This pic showing the prop of a KILO class I used it as an example for the anodes.
Grtz,
Bart
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