Ken wrote:

I just dug my old blades out of the snow and found that they are
delaminated but I think that they could be wet out and glued back
together and then lam some glass over the top and they should work
for a test blade.
I also have a 4 blade hub and set of blade blocks you could use.

Paul Lamar replied:

That sounds great Ken. A catastrophic failure on the dyno is no where
near as bad as in the air :)

Yeah, but even on the dyno a catastrophic failure would still be very

bad. Those

blades are really suspect; no telling what the "uncontrolled heat

treatment" did to

them. Perhaps the hub and blade blocks could be re-used if one could

scrounge up a

reliable set of blades. Otherwise, get a "real" club prop.

Russell Kent

I need something adjustable.

Paul Lamar

A good safety trick would be to rig a dead-man switch with a lanyard.  Tie
the other end of the lanyard to a stake in the ground.  That way if you
throw a blade and the dyno starts jumping around it will kill the engine on
the first jump.

Mike McGee, RV-4 N996RV, O320-E2G, Hillsboro, OR
13B in gestation mode

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