Vance W Jaqua wrote:

While snooping around at Sun N Fun, I was very very impressed
by the method That Aerocomposite prop people retained their
blades. In princple as shown by the attached sketch (actual
much more complex). The basic system uses tubular braided
fiberglass sleeves, with some axial carbon fiber enclosed.
The sleeve is turned back on itself over a metal ring, and then the
race in this case is slipped down against  bundled ring, and then
the whole mess is resin bonded (resin transfer in their case)
No cut fibers, no holes, no "threads" just total capture,
Elegant - wish I had thought of it.
 Vance J

Very elegant and light weight solution Vance. Thanks for tracking that down.

Paul Lamar

 
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