Everything You Needed To Know About Propellers- Quicksilver

[SeaBat]

Does anybody have a copy of : Quicksilver- Everything You Needed To Know About Propellers? I am interested in learning more about propeller technology.

[DeanFHobart]

Does anybody have a copy of : Quicksilver- Everything You Needed To Know About Propellers? I am interested in learning more about propeller technology.

Try E-Bay............... $19 or so.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Quicksilver-...#ht_1542wt_863

Good Luck.............................

[SeaBat]

Thanks for the heads up. Ordered it. Hope I get it before the Nationals. It will make interesting reading and maybe reinforce what I have read, learn new additional information, and separate some of the wheat from the chaff.
Bill

[Shane_B]

Here are a couple of sites to help determine propeller data

Prop data calculation (ratio/pitch/speed/slip): http://rbbi.com/folders/prop/propcalc.htm

How to measure prop pitch/rake with a gauge: http://www.ehow.com/how_5895820_dete...rop-pitch.html
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How to measure Prop pitch without a gauge: http://www.ehow.com/how_8715837_measure-pitch-prop.html


I, too, am interested in finding out as much about prop voodoo as possible...

[guedo499]

Eenie, Meenie, Minee Moe, which little Silver Devil will make me go?!

Prop Science = Black Magic

Lower that slip!!

[Shane_B]

Yeap - about sums it up!

[SeaBat]

Black Magic for sure. Many years ago in my "yute" in the early 60's I found a guy named Smith in Shreveport, LA who would work on my 20H props. It wasn't until I read the article on SOA's website forty some years later that I realized that I had tapped into one of the greats of his time. How lucky can you get!
Bill

[DeanFHobart]

Yo SeaBat Bill,
I was also Lucky enough to find R.Allen "Papa" Smith in the second year (1963) I raced... ASH. I set lots of World Records with his props. He was a Master.

[DeanFHobart]

Eenie, Meenie, Minee Moe, which little Silver Devil will make me go?!
Prop Science = Black MagicLower that slip!!

And from a Prop Maker No Less !!!!!!!!!

[propfxrO84]

Try the Hering prop calculator (BTW just 1 r in the name).

[SeaBat]

In the Hering calculator where it asks for pitch and the prop has a progressive pitch do you enter the average pitch such as say 12 for a progressive pitch of 11 to 13?

[propfxrO84]

Yes, that will work. Please remember these calculators are just for reference, there are so many variables that no computers could possibly allow for all of them. But, it is a very nice tool, and a heck of a lot better than our old pencil and paper math or (later) slide calculator.