REFLECTOR:Catto prop incident ....

[Jim Sower]

<... one tough son of a bitch prop that eats 5/8 nuts ... Go Catto!!! ...>
Yeah.  Comforting to know it could probably have survived the alternator too :o)

BTW, This latest one is the second exhaust pipe I've gotten from Velocity.  Neither
one of them would go on the studs without setting them just right and flailing them
with the ball of my hand.  The first time, I thought I'd gotten one that wasn't jigged
up just right.  Now I'm 2 for 2 and expecting my SS pipe to arrive any day (hoping?)
and wondering if perhaps angle valve IO-360 is maybe a little bit different from
regular O-360.

Has anyone else had O-360 pipes that didn't fit right (on the studs, not the cowl
nipples) ... Jim S.

Scott wrote:

> Jim,
>
> Its always good to hear of a "good" accident!
>
> I also am being pushed around by a Catto.
>
> I've eaten 2 cowl screws.  I also had a 5/8 nut come off my alternator
> mount, it of course went through the prop.
>
> I didn't hear it like you did, but geezz was I surprised  when I
> pre-flighted the next flight and found a big ol gash on the back side of
> one blade.  Another much smaller gash on the backside of another blade(the
> washer of course).  The bolt hit the back side so hard it blew the paint
> off the front side of the blade.  I sanded it down and did a standard
> fiberglass repair to fix the two layers of fiberglass it fractured. There
> were a whole lot more layers of glass under the fractured ones but they
> were undamaged.
>
> I called Craig when I was ready to paint, to get the color.  He said I
> could have just filled it with flox and run with it.  Oh well...
>
> Its nice to know your flying with one tough son of a bitch prop that eats
> 5/8 nuts for lunch and doesn't even burp.
>
> Scott
>
> Go Catto!!!

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Jim Sower
Crossville, TN; Chapter 5
Long-EZ N83RT, Velocity N4095T