Painting propeller?

[scottessex]

Any one ever paint a warp drive prop?? Just wondering if it would hold up, or would it affect balance and aerodynamics? I painted the tips, and they are holding up well.

[Harry_S.]

Scott: Painting the tips doesn't affect the dynamics, however, you'll find that after a couple hundred hours, the leading edges won't have too much paint left. I see that you will be using a grass strip, this will play havoc with your paint, more so on take-offs. That's one of the reasons I take-off on the hard surface.

I would suggest , don't touch up paint the tips. If they get looking bad, strip it off and re-paint.

[Caribean_gyro]

we have pain several stripes on the warp prop with no issue of balancing. Beside the engine is shaking that much that you wont notice a diferrence. Ours have 3 stripes so it looks weird when seen flying from the back\
CHukP

[Harry_S.]

Chuck: Engine shake?? Not with a "Smooth Soob", you wont.

You have an aircraft engine installed, I believe, I can't tell by your avatar.

Cheers

[mceagle]

Warp Drive Props are painted from new and paint is the best way to re-balance them when required.

[Caribean_gyro]

No harry 4 cycles are smooth. But in a rotax at low rpm he wants to skake you back plus your frame. The point is that is a 2 cycle trying to diferentiate a vibration sorce is tought
ChuckP

[Harry_S.]

Chuck P: I had many hours sittin' in front of the MAC 72. Don't have any experience with the Rotax. Which of those two shake the most?

Tim: I didn't notice the blades on my Warp prop till after I painted the tips. The 3 stripes were not evenly spaced when rotating. I checked the dimensions of the paint and they were good. I checked the length of each blade and one blade was 1/8" shorter than the other two. I called Warp about it and he said the prop was balanced by painting. They have very few blades that are perfectly matched in length. How 'bout that!?

[Caribean_gyro]

If you have a single carb no CDI MC. I would say the MC. The vibaration on the rotax is absob more in the red. drive . But a MC in idle is worht. Now when you have a super mc and a CDI he can idle as a 4 cycle. Not recomended to idel too much but my set up I have mine idel at 1000 rpm and give me time to dtrap on turn radios etc, with no plug fouling.

Chuck

[GyroRon]

Chuck not trying to be a A-hole or anything but man!...... For someone who speaks English, your spelling in most of your posts Sucks! ;) ;) ;) :D

[Aussie_Paul]

Ron, you wouldn't have to try and be a A-hole!!!!!!!!!!!! I would have thought that it came naturally!!!!! :)

I will be away for acouple of days training so I don't want to think that I have forgotten him, so I give him both barrels tonight. Good on you Ron!!!!!!!!!!

Aussie Paul. :)

[GyroRon]

I was PICKING in my last post above!!! Notice all the winks and smiles?

[Caribean_gyro]

I think I am doing all right to be Dyslectic. I try to proof read before pressing enter.

But per haps my spanish wil be better

La proxima vez verifico mi pronunciacion antes de enviar el mensaje.

Gracias
Charles

[GyroRon]

Alright Jose, what did chuck just say?

[PW_Plack]

Guys, we're in a punctuation crisis. I just picked this up from the Associated Press wire...

(Berkeley, California -AP-) A leading linguist at the University of California at Berkeley said today that the English-speaking world is in imminent danger of running out of certain punctuation marks, due mainly to abuse of the language by gyroplane enthusiasts in the United States and Australia.

Dr. Riddick U. Luss is credited with being the first researcher to prove that there is a finite number of punctuation marks in the universe, and that only as old manuscripts, e-mails and web forum posts decompose do those marks become available for re-use. During certain parts of the evening, certain regions of the United States are already seeing the shortage.

Interviewed by telephone from his office on campus, Dr. Luss told the AP that he was experiencing an exclamation point outage at that very moment.

Quote - "Watch this. Wow. Look at that. I didn't know Anna Nicole Smith had a trampoline. See? The inability to express excitement is a problem in verbal communications, not just written messages. Unless exclamation point rationing is undertaken soon, this imbalance threatens to make life extremely boring in areas of high population density." -Unquote-

Asked about the source of the problem, Dr. Luss blamed an Australian gyroplane instructor, Paul Bruty, who apparently gets extremely excited while posting on the popular Rotary Wing Forum on the internet. -Quote- "We believe Mr. Bruty is exaggerating his excitment level in his written communications. Any real sentiment requiring eleven exclamation points in a row would impart a high risk of cardiac arrest, and Mr. Bruty survives these incidents routinely. It has to be an overstatement." -Unquote-

Dr. Luss first drew international attention with a research paper published in late 1996, when he warned that emoticons, the various smiling faces formed on the internet using punctuation, might threaten a shortage of colons and semicolons. Later, he noted that apostrophy abuse might soon threaten our system of property ownership, and force writers into much longer sentences without the ability to use contractions. In a rare optimistic paper published in 2001, Dr. Luss reported that ebonic English and Hip-Hop expressions, such as, "Im hot 4 U," might be the only reason we haven't already run out of the most common letters of the alphabet, especially the letters "E" and "T."

Finally, Dr. Luss said the news media itself may soon find itself unable to report the news, due to a growing shortage of quotation marks. Without them, it might become impossible for reporters to relate the actual statements of official spokemen to the public. Of the quotation mark shortage, Dr. Luss said, -Quote- "This Gremminger guy, whoever he is, must be stopped." -Unquote-

[GyroRon]

Paul you really do got too much time on your hands! thanks for the good laugh! :)

[mceagle]

Funny, but what has that got to do with "painting a propeller"??????????????????????

[Chuck Irby]

What I can't understand is; How anyone who slaughters the English language, as bad as you do Ron, can even joke about how poor someone else's spelling is? Wow, just look at the wording in your last post to this thread!!! Paul you really do got too much time on your hands! thanks for the good laugh! :D :D :D

[PW_Plack]

Holy cow, Tim, you're going to run us out of question marks. Yikes.

Darn...this is hard with the exclamation points all used up.

[birdy]

I always wundered wot !!!!!!! ,ment.!!!!!!!!!!! :confused:
But ya can't blame me for flogg'n the english language coz I only speek stroin :rolleyes: .The english lauage has too many rules,and nuth'n sounds like it's ritn :mad: .[or ritn like it sounds].If everybody rote werds the way they sound ,then everybody would understand wot you was riten. :D Everybody would only need to lern the sounds the letters make and then it's easy to sound the words out.
wotya reckon?
Fessup anyone hoo can't understand wot I just rote. :)

[scottessex]

huked on foniks werkd fer me.

[PW_Plack]

Birdy,

You're on to something. On a recent visit to Hawaii, it was explained to me that to make learning English easier for the natives, early missionaries reduced the language to 14 essential letters, all that was needed to cover all the sounds.

OK, I guess, but it leads to a whole bunch of horrendous street names beginning with "K" and followed by a huge string of other letters, every other one of which is "A."