skipperdude
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Ok I hit bottom and totally destroyed my prop.
I put the boat on the tide grid.
When the tide went out I saw the damage.
Question one.
Can this prop be fixed?
It Saturday and I can't find a machine shop open. True.
(You have to remember this is Alaska and the reds are still running and the silvers are just starting to show up.)
The next morning when the tide came in I used my dingy to tow the boat back to the slip.
I went to a boat bone yard and found a 24" RH 16 pitch prop on an old Davis Trawler.
I worked out a deal to purchase the prop for $650.00.
The prop is in good shape. one minor dink on one of the blades that I fixed with a hammer and dolly.
So I have a friend with a dry suit that agreed to put the new prop on the boat. He only had 1100 lbs of air so we needed to make this quick. I tide a rope around the prop and lowered it off the stern and he slid it on and proceeded to put the castle nut on. It wouldn't tighten down. had to pull the prop off we measured the surface and discovered the shaft diameter to be metric and not standard. this tapered shaft was to large.
Question # 2 Can this hub be enlarged to fit the shaft?
# 3 If so should I lap the shaft to fit the new prop?
The key is also metric.
#4. Can a key be machined to fit both
shaft and hub?
I know I can find this all out on Monday but I thought I would pose the question to the forum first.
Thanks
Sd
I put the boat on the tide grid.
When the tide went out I saw the damage.
Question one.
Can this prop be fixed?
It Saturday and I can't find a machine shop open. True.
(You have to remember this is Alaska and the reds are still running and the silvers are just starting to show up.)
The next morning when the tide came in I used my dingy to tow the boat back to the slip.
I went to a boat bone yard and found a 24" RH 16 pitch prop on an old Davis Trawler.
I worked out a deal to purchase the prop for $650.00.
The prop is in good shape. one minor dink on one of the blades that I fixed with a hammer and dolly.
So I have a friend with a dry suit that agreed to put the new prop on the boat. He only had 1100 lbs of air so we needed to make this quick. I tide a rope around the prop and lowered it off the stern and he slid it on and proceeded to put the castle nut on. It wouldn't tighten down. had to pull the prop off we measured the surface and discovered the shaft diameter to be metric and not standard. this tapered shaft was to large.
Question # 2 Can this hub be enlarged to fit the shaft?
# 3 If so should I lap the shaft to fit the new prop?
The key is also metric.
#4. Can a key be machined to fit both
shaft and hub?
I know I can find this all out on Monday but I thought I would pose the question to the forum first.
Thanks
Sd
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