Bent prop blade: worth fixing?

Is it worth removing the prop, straighten the blade, check and balance?

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seastoke said:
45 ft then with man engines
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if we're guessing what boat MM is buying, I'd guess it has stabs and therefore must be closer to 60ft than 50ft...
Bow angle seems a tad conservative so I'd dare a guess that it's a fairly recent hull design.

Unfortunately the pic he posted is his own so cannot use the google image thing to find the ad (assuming there is one and is not a private sale)

cheers

V.
 
MapisM said:
LOL, allright, here's an appetizer.
But don't ask for more, 'cause I'd tell you, but then I'd have to kill you... :D:D:D
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San Lorenzo 62 ?
The WL blue band and the 1st spray rail

Tells us when you are ready though - don,t want to spoil anything .

It's looks a good Un so far .
 
Last time C&O fixed my prop it went to them with bits missing and various minor bent edges. That was 2005, cost £60 and came back like new. They did say it was dezinced and wouldn't last long, and they wouldn't be able to do it again. Might get a new one soon.
 
28" dia? That's bound to cost some quids if you should really replace it...!
Interesting anyway, I only heard so far of dezinced brass - isn't proper bronze supposed to last forever?
 
MapisM said:
28" dia? That's bound to cost some quids if you should really replace it...!
Interesting anyway, I only heard so far of dezinced brass - isn't proper bronze supposed to last forever?
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Ah. Maybe. I fitted a new engine in 1998, it was 2in shorter than the old one so I put an R&D coupling in and it insulated the prop from the engine. I corrected it after two years, but pink spots by then. I spoke to them recently and a new four blade would be £700-odd.
 
All understood, thanks.
95 quids still sounds very reasonable considering the prop conditions you described - as well as the 700 for the new one!
 
While you have the opportunity and for the small extra cost involved, it might be worth taking off both props and having them checked and matched, unless of course you are totally certain that no other work has ever been done on either of them. Should still be a small cost compared to your much larger overall investment.
 
Those props look very familiar to me --and the rudder .
Another thing to think about I was told a new pair was € 3-4000 ball park .
This is because they do a production run of a guestimate of sales ,
If they under manufactor then the law of supply / demand takes over .
Or your boat is "grounded " for months or a season ? Could be miles from home port ? Untill it's time to do another run .

For that reason I have a new spare pair + nuts ,all the tools etc fitted on a carrying rack under a berth in the stern cabin .

Previous owner "had them in his garage @ home " and wanted € 4000 /pair .
I got them for €2500 ---all part of the negotiations /buying process .

So two factors the € replacement ,but more important availability or lack of it leaving you stranded and /or a ruined season waiting for a production run .
 
Allright folks, do you believe that politicians are like diapers (both must be changed often and for the same reason), and are you skeptical that anything is going to change whenever you are asked to vote? :D

Well, not so here in the asylum.
Below a pic dedicated to the 80% of voters who choose "yes": the same props as above, straight out of the factory which originally built them. Don't they shout SPEED? :cool:
Can't wait to try them, though it'll take a while, due to several other works in progress...
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