timjet
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I'm installing new props in an effort to download my engines and achieve rated WOT rpm. The props shop has estimated the props I need but I won’t be sure they are the correct pitch until I try them out. It may be necessary to add some pitch or cup if they are slightly under pitched, which I think they may be. That’s OK, better to be under pitched slightly than over pitched. I want to paint the props with prop speed an anti fowling paint but if I do so and the props have to be re-pitched or some cup put in I think the prop speed will be destroyed. Prop speed paint is about $350 and the cost for a diver to change out the props is about $150. I also need a bottom job which I will do this winter. So I think I’m going to wait on the prop speed paint until I pull the boat this winter but I don’t want to leave the new props totally un-protected. Is there some cheap paint I can use that will temporally protect the props somewhat for a couple of months until I can paint them at haul out?