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Old 10-15-2012, 06:13 AM
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Default RE: Shoestring Stunter Old kit new build


ORIGINAL: R8893

Good looking classic model. However, please don't use the Tornado nylon prop; it may have aged to the point where it will fly apart.
Chuck

The Tornado props were not nylon, they were polyester. They did not get brittle from losing moisture, as the nylon top-flites did and boiling them didn't help (or hurt) them. We have many of the old Yellow and the newest batch of white ones still flying every day at our club field and we've never had any issues with them - other than they are not the greatest prop in the world. In speed limit combat, if someone is too fast we just change the prop to a matching Tornado white and it is an immediate 10 mph reduction in speed.