Kitsap Results Please?

[DeanFHobart]

Any results from Kitsap?

[daveracerdsh]

Yah...my best DSH prop...is now feeding the fishes at the bottom of Kitsap Lake. D stock racers..we need to figure out a way to check prop shafts for cracks and stuff. I have lost 2 in the last 10 years.. Are other D racers having problems also?

[J.Michael]

Dave-
J.W. and Troy broke theres at Yelm on Sunday. That's what ended their day. Thanks for helping me try to figure out that dang merc over the weekend and thanks for letting me use your's in DSR. It didn't miss a beat!

[daveracerdsh]

Dsh

Anytime Mike. I am just letting off steam that my best freaking prop is 30 feet under a bouy in Kitsap Lake.. lol...just bugs the heck out of me. See you at Newburg, where nothing bad is gonna happen, aside from me burning my wrecked DSH in the fire. Dave

[RuthieRae]

Year of the Prop

Must be a bad year for props.....I have one blade of my good wheel at the bottom of Lawrence Lake......

Ruthie

[huskydawg17]

I should have them on the CORA webpage by this afternoon
-Ryan

[daveracerdsh]

Props

Its funny...Prop shafts only let go when you have what you think is a fast prop on the end of them. I have maybe 10 props that I loan out to neighbors for them to use as pooper scoopers...and does the prop shaft break when I am running with one of those. OF COURSE NOT The prop gods must know whats going on...you never lose a blade on a junker prop etc.. Sigh.

[dt 01]

props

well at least you guy's got to use your prop's i paid 400.00 dollars for a
prop that broke after 2 heats...200 dollar's a heat!!!
dave 68R

[daveracerdsh]

Ouch...2 heats? What class was it? Who made the prop?

[dt 01]

Ouch...2 heats? What class was it? Who made the prop?

the only class i have run this year 20ssh

[JULI SEAMAN]

Why was it my BEST prop that threw a blade???

One theory is-- you only throw a blade on your best wheel because naturally it's the only one you run. The reason it's your best wheel is that 1 blade is prob'ly flexing, making it FAST, then the blade eventually breaks off, hence you only throw blades on your best props. This tid bit came from the Bob Davidson school of racing. I lost my best ASH prop into the muck at the bottom of Sunday lake when my towerhousing,et al broke. used my 2nd best prop and won the finals. couple weeks later the "2nd best" threw a blade, at Lock Haven. The theory worked on at least 2 other props I got from the dearly departed Mr. Czaplewski. Too much thinning makes a great prop but only temporarily. I dunno, maybe I was one of his faves, but he always replaced them for free!!

[daveracerdsh]

props

Very Interesting post. I bet if you go around the country and ask racers.."when you lost prop, was it a junker or a good wheel" they will all say the same thing. I think in the back of my mind I knew that...but not that its a good thing, but its nice to hear other racers have the same thing happen to them...Dave racer

[Kevin Martin]

daveydave

hey bud i threw a blade one year at elk river, in 1100 hydro, probably 150-200 yards from where i was pitting. after being towed in and a little time to look things over, we actuall found the missing blade lying on the beach, right where a couple of guys who had helped me were standing watching the heat. really freaked me out when i figured out it really could have hurt someone, but amazing just the same to have found it it at all. kevin

[daveracerdsh]

Props

Yikes....that would cause me to hit the whiskey pretty hard. I always cringe when I am sitting in boat, ready for a heat, and another racer backs boat in water next to me and fires motor up, with prop half way in the water spinning away. Just think what would happen if a blade chose that very second to let go....Dave

[Kevin Martin]

You Think That Too???

**** i thought i was the only one wiggin' bout that kinda stuff kevin