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Old 07-17-2002 | 04:21 PM
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That's right gpmike, If I saw a difference, I'd do it all the time, but the bottom line is, I don't!

BTW, a funny little story... Last winter I had nothing to build, and since my workshop is the only place in the house that I can smoke, I spent a lot of time down there with nothing to do. So just for the hell of it, I started balancing a prop that I had cut down from an 11" to a 10" (which, by the way, ran fine after loping 1/2" off of each tip with a razor saw while at the field). So, every now and then, I would sand a little, then scrape a little, then add some CA to the side of the hub, etc until this prop was 100% balanced in every direction (Ok, so I was bored!) Then Springtime came! I was going out to the field for the first time all year and I was bring my plane up from the basement, it slipped and one side of the prop hit a stair and snapped off! All I could do was laugh!