This is one of those posts that I'm going to print out and put into my notebook.... Last weekend, I made the mistake of getting "in front" of the prop -even though I was a good 5 feet from it- the veteran who was standing nearby almost instinctively B*tch slapped me! Now I know why..... I'm really sorry to hear about the stitches, having had WAY more than my fair share of stiches in my head/face/lip due to one thing or another, I can feel your pain and it seems it NEVER stops bleeding! But just a little one-way-or-the-other-factor in play and it could have been your eyeball on the end of that prop (god, that makes me cringe just TYPING it!!!! [:'(] )

I also agree with everyone about not using the blue loctite -> unless you NEVER plan to get it off again and heaven help you if you should put it on JUST a little unevenly > a rotating mass becomes a nightmare to balance ( I was using this stuff on a project at work a while back and it threw the rotation of the part ALL of out whack and we almost sheared a hardened steel bolt trying to get the dang nut off!!! ) It was enough of a bad experience to where I don't even mess with the stuff any more. It was a gooey mess to start with and it ended with a PITA