Prop wash
 

I have been using windex to clean up my airplane after flight but I cant seem to get my propeller as clean.
WHERE CAN I GET A BOTTLE OF PROP WASH?










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It's on the shelf right next to the frammises and muffler bearings! Not the one with the compass fluid.

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Isn't the prop wash on the same shelf as the tubine exhaust??
or is it on the same shelf as the bulk pack of MilliAmps the electric guys use?

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Prop wash by itself is no good...it's similar to an epoxy so you need to get some prop pitch and mix them in equal parts.

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Downunder, is that ostrich well trained? Its looking at me funny.

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Whew! Am I glad to hear that Cappio. I thought it was looking funny at ME! [X(]
Dennis-

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Ah yes...

A bucket of Prop Wash

50ft of Chow Line

A quart of Relative Bearing Grease

Some Sky Hooks

A Bulkhead Remover

A Tent Stretcher

What other good ones were there?

RE: Prop wash
 

Prop wash sounds as though its hard to find like long weights :D

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"it's similar to an epoxy so you need to get some prop pitch and mix them in equal parts."

Are you sure?? i thought prop wash was stocked in air tight containers after you mix prop pitch and prop diameter together

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I cant seem to find the bottles anywhere. What should be my "angle of attack" to get some?

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> What other good ones were there? <

When my father worked in the US Naval Shipyard in Philadelphia in WW2 appentices were sent to the toolroom to ask for:

Skyhooks (of course)

A bucket of steam

A can of white paint with 1/2" red stripes

RE: Prop wash
 

We used to send newbee's to the tool room to get

1. 100' of flightline

2. 1 gal of tar mack

3. flight apron

4. K9P

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ohhh, forgot about those!!!!!!!!!
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And then of course, there were the left-handed Mop Handle, and the Metric Crescent Wrench,

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How about going to the Main Space and getting a BT punch?

Or a box of Ball tabs..........(NTDS guys should remember that!)

Or asking the new BM on watch 'Hey, can you give me a relative bearing to that GU-11 or the B1RD"

Who says being in the Navy wasn't any fun???

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When I was a Chef, breaking in the new cooks, when we were very busy. "Hey I need a bucket of steam now", they would run around the kitchen go to the steamer and just stand there thinking how to get it in a bucket :D Too funny!! Also popular was a left handed ladle, right handed spatula, left handed saute pan etc, they would say but I only see one kind :D
Joe

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I have worked in and around airlines for the last 28 years and it brings back the memories.

We also sent newbies out for: flightline and prop wash. It was in the initiation process.

I have been in the telecom part for a lot of my time and although we didn't have "tent stretchers" we did have them look for "line stretchers."

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There is also dural termite exterminator and pilot holes.

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How about the keys to the 727? Or the keys to the approach gate?

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LOL!!! This so reminds me of what I did to the shop numnut not too long ago! We were rigging ailerons on a Lear 60 and I needed the inclinometer. I sent him to the stockroom to get the, not the digital one, but the special "Flugelbinder Inclinometer" and he looked at me funny. All I could do not to laugh, but I held it in. I acted real serious and he went to the stockroom. I proceeded to tell everyone on the aircraft and they were watching for him to return. He finally came back after ten minutes of searching in the stockroom. He even had the stockroom people (4 of em) looking with him. When he told me the stockroom wanted to see me, everyone lost it!! It was all we could do not to piss our pants. Needless to say I was in the office about an hour later getting chewed for wasting so much company time (50 people x 10 min ea =500 min). The boss that chewed me though was laughing the hardest.

Jet wash is another good one!!

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I was working in a car parts supplier some many years back and this kid (very obviously a new apprentice) came in and asked for a "tin of compression". One of the old hands told him "It only comes in plastic these days, but it is the same stuff".

He trotted out the back, grabbed a small plastic jar, blew some cigarette smoke into it and sealed it. A hand written label and back to the counter.

Paperwork finished and the boy trots off.

A week later his boss rings up demanding to know what the **** was the idea in charging him $150 (or whatever the price was) for a "Small Jar of Compression". It was explained to him, and instead of losing his rag, he laughed and said "I know exactly who to blame for that. "

Three days later, the foreman from that shop came in to pay for the invoice. He told us that it was that or lose his job. We fixed it for him, but there was never another order for "compression".

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We had a young officer cadet on the crew getting some familiarization flights while waiting for his next course... he got sent for a bucket of propwash... he promptly asked where it was to be found and was told in the maintenance hangar at the other side of the field... so he disappears on his quest and wasn't seen for the rest of the day... he got the last laugh though... turned out he heard that one before and headed on over to the Officer's Mess, had a nice leisurely lunch and then spent the afternoon drinking beer and playing pool!

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Heres one for you jarheads,

Go get me a box of grid squares

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I know my brother sent his (now) wife to town to get a left handed cresent wrench, then he called the shop to tell her Dad. When she got there, her own dad told her they were out, but he had a metric left haded one that was a bit more but would work.

Once she got home, he was laughing so hard when she explained to him that she figured out it was a joke.