Finally…
I’m taking the day to get after projects and pi**offs that keep getting interrupted by life. I was hoping to power my electric pusher trash plane (foam board) - with salvaged crapcopter parts but it was no dice. This thing’s spinning a bigger prop and needs a bigger motor. So I ordered in a new motor, got a new 50A ESC, and bought a pusher prop from the hobby store. Of course the motor shaft didn’t fit the prop so I thunk to myself… bigger hole, bigger drill bit…problem solved. I figured I’d chuck up the drill press, push start… and promptly produced an off-centre prop that looked like a hare lip retard went after it!!!
So I go to the hobby shop, and the stubfarts set me up with another prop (a more expensive and less efficient 3 blade) … and they’re kind enough to loan me the shop’s prop reamer. I had to wait forever because it was busy… and none of the other stupid old farts in there would get in line like the rest of us - they just jumped the cue and butted in line like they owned the place. When the four foot tall old chink beside me did it… I almost cussed him out!
Thankfully the clerks intercepted me before any hobby shop RAGE broke out! 😡 I got my revenge on the little line-jumping gook on the way out - he had his arms full of crap that he bought… and I didn’t hold the door for him. The little bastard did a face plant on the glass doors when the wind caught them and slammed them shut behind me.
Ordinarily I try to take the high road with such things… but sometimes….? Hell’s bells - these are all old grey hairs! They should have learned some manners by now, you’d think? It must be something in the air or water that is turning us all into assholes. Perhaps me, most of all… now I feel bad for the way I treated that old chink! GAH!
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Anyways… the lesson here is ream out the props for oddball shaft sizes… don’t drill ‘em! Stick with ol’ man Filthie… and you’ll be smarter every day!
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Crocs?
ReplyDeleteOnly the best will do! 😊👍
DeleteThems those new steel toe (perforated) safety crocks I've heard about. Imagine the Canukistan version of OSHA will be by presently to inspect the workplace.
DeleteZoiks... prop reaming is one thing. Back when I was flying Stunt I oft wondered as the move was to tuned pipes and Bolly 3-blade props. How does one balance one? I imagine it's a tad different than the process on a top-flite 12-6.
ReplyDeleteI don’t get it. All the two blades I buy seem to balance right out of the package. I remember having to sand a tiny bit off one once and then it balanced too…
DeleteI don’t understand props. 2 blades are theoretically the most efficient but some planes must have 3 or 4 bladed props. The actual math for it gets insane.
For me… I’m doing great if the plane even flies. I consider batteries and electric motors holy sacrilege and would much prefer gassers or nitro and all the noise and mess that goes along with them… but that’s just me.
Amen to that. LOL... the old Fox 35's absolutely needed 25 percent Castor Oil to run properly. Still do. The smell alone was ambrosia... and you absolutely HAD to wipe down after each flight. Goopy gloppy WEIGHT addition otherwise!
DeleteMr. Filthie- try Critchley reamers. Used 'em on real airplanes. They work as well as your attention to detail will carry you.😁
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