hey! i still have a supply of new top flite nylon propellers here!
chuck,
----- Original Message -----
From Charley & Peggy Robinson <ccrobins at ktc.com>
To: Larry & Sandi Miller <millerls@ado13.com>
Cc: <spridgets@autox.team.net>; <bugeye@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 1:35 AM
Subject: Re: #%&*() Fan
> My sympathies, Larry. Poor you. When nylon propellers cam out for
> model airplane engines, we had to boil them to relieve internal stresses
> so they wouldn't fly apart. Also, they gad to be discarded if the were
> nicked. Don't see them any more. I wonder if 7500 rpm is faster than
> the mfr envisioned your fan being turned? Maybe you can recover from
> them.
>
> Cheers,
>
> CR
>
> Larry & Sandi Miller wrote:
> >
> > Finally finished up the Bugeye today and since it did not rain, took it
out
> > for a drive. Good news is that it goes like hell. Bad news is that the
> > plastic 6 blade fan (Brand New) let go at 7500 RPM and took my brand new
4
> > row radiator core ($220) with it. All 6 blades are now about 1" long.
> >
> > I'm with Mike, "It Just Ain't Fair"
> >
> > Larry Miller
> > http://www.ado13.com
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