I balance ALL my props. To me sometimes it's time consuming.

I had to rebalance one of my props for the PTS Hanger 9 Mustang after I painted the tips yellow. Painting the tips most always makes ther prop unbalanced.

I found out the hard way when I put the prop on the plane and she started to vibrate much more than usual.

I took off the new yellow tiped blade and put my other prop on that was unpainted. ( I knew better than try to fly it that way, I don't take chances)

It took me a few minutes lightly scraping the trailing edge of the blade to balance it correctly.

I've seen planes go down, and heard of planes crashing due to excessive vibration, everyone should have there props balanced.

I know of a few who rubber mount there motors as well on the bigger planes, just to cut down on the vibration. ( But that's just another topic)


Luftwaffe Oberst
Radio Aero Modelers Club
AMA District II
Pulaski, NY