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Old 07-24-2007 | 04:25 AM
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Hello Spinner people HA HA. I have a trainer i have been flying that has a saito .72 GK on it. I have been flying it with a cracked spinner for a time now no problems but thought it would be best to replace it with a new one just cause it didnt look nice and is dangerous. So i bought another one. Well Both spinners the cracked one and new one were plastic. The new one was a dubro and had nuts on the back for tightning the cone onto the back plate had to do some modifying to get it to fit. anyhow after i did get it to fit nicely and tightned it down and everything looked good. I started the engine and ran it no problems, then ran the engine up and the spinner shattered WOW what a thrill that was. Engine died of course, man i was not very happy. 2 inch spinner down the drain 5 bucks gone. But i did purchase a great planes 3 inch spinner for my extra 330L. so i decided to use it on the superstar 60 looks a bit funny but appears to work good ran it up and it didnt shatter. But since this has happened i really want to use an aluminum spinners they look nice and are durable and the saito is a 4 stroke and from what i have read about in the post hear well enough said.
But my problem is finding an aluminum spinner that will work on this engine. I really dont like the idea of the spinner nut i guess you would call it holding the prop on and thats it. the engine as most know already has two nuts that lock together to hold the prop on. From what i can see on the aluminum spinners is the one nut holding the prop on against the backplate. Hmmm What to do for now i will try a few flights with my big nasty 3 inch spinner on the plane. But would like to know how to put an aluminum spinner on this engine and what type i should get. looking for any help i can get. the extra 330L now that one is a whole other story on getting a spinner to fit it. 20X10 wood prop on it and a big allen bolt holds the prop on and three smaller bolts. Cheap Chinese GAs engine but it works. would look nice with a big chrome spinner on it if i ever can figure it out. Hard to belive that something as simple as a cone on the front of a plane would be so difficult to get right.
I seen in the web site that was posted here in the cutting review on spinners was simular to my gasser. So maybe it wont be to hard to figure out how to mount the spinner for the League Extra 330L.

The superstar doesnt have the nice little White spinner anymore it has a big nasy red 3 inch spinner on it now YUK
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