Newbie in the neighborhood !! Can someone tell me what I have here

[dereckg]

!st I filed it then I sanded it smooth ! All the while on and off the balancer !! I put each blade up till it no longer moved !! When it comes to instructions I follow to the T !! thats why they there !! I am a pain with question ! But cant learn anything if you dont ask !!

[dana]

no prob dood. you might want to read about prop balancing on ose rather than the balancer instructions. that prop should have taken you all night to do rite.
http://www.offshoreelectrics.com/inf...andbalance.php

[dereckg]

I was pretty aggresive with the file ! Because as i got in2 the material I found several casting marks that were not visable at 1st ! I thought they were cracks at 1st but i switched to 60 grit then to 80 and finished off with 100 ! I will look at the thread ! I can tell you one thing I did find !! My shaft wasnt all the way locked in !! I pulled it again to grease it because it was feeling tight, worse than the first time that pulled it apart and found no grease !! i was putting it back in and wasnt feeling any better so I pushed in more than the last time and I felt a little pop and wow it spins beautiful now !! I think some of my speed problem was the binding it was doin !! It was shutting down on me the last time i tried it out !! ??Thermal shut down ?? Similar to my cars when I run tall gears and create more take off drag !!

[dereckg]

Figured out what the pop was !! The tubeing inside the brass tube was kinked at the end and gripping the end of the fat part of the shaft ! I cut 1/8 inch off to get me past the kink and shaft still spinning free !

[Heaving Earth]

Whatever works

[dereckg]

2moro will tell

[dana]

if you finished with 100 grit, your prop must look like a metal file.i usually finish with 800.

[dereckg]

U gave me that link to check out and I did miss that step, so another hour last night I did finish up the prop with some compound ! Nice and smooth now can almost see myself in it now I mite have it too sharp though took some skin off the inside of one of my fingers

[dana]

yeah well those suckers should be razor sharp. take my advise and dont EVER touch the prop when batteries are plugged in. i once did, and had a mishap.
ill spare you the gory details, but trust me it was messy.

[dereckg]

I bet cause all I did was let it slide a lil bit and it shaved a nice chunk off the inside of my finger Gona be headn out soon to test it out