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Old 11-19-2005 | 02:53 AM
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Default RE: removal of prop on OS46

What we all like to call channel locks are actually adjustable tongue and groove pliers like the ones on the Channellock web site
http://www.channellock.com/acb/store..._Groove_C3.cfm
Maybe channellock invented or patented the design and the brand became the name of the tool?
Definitely not any kind of pliers .


If you have an extra prop nut. Just tighten them together on the engine shaft. Hold the outer nut with a wrench, and unscrew the prop. by hand.
Just hold the double ended broken prop with the channel locks and unscrew the nuts with a box wrench.

causing hydraulic lock , and sticking something in the exhaust port is just to much damn work for me to even try doing this to free a nut.

JessieJ we don't agree, I can care less about some marks on the hub, the nut , the engine block , etc . I am not that prissy to worry about small marks on the hub VS worring about getting back in the air.

I have broken both ends off of a prop only once, and I think I just held the prop with my hand and turn the nut with a box wrench to get it off , GL.

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