REFLECTOR: MT Prop Damage

[Doug Kanczuzewski]

I repaired a small nick as well with JB weld and cleaned up then paint surface on the blade. I then added some leading edge tape from A.S. which has seemed to hold down on all the nicks I was getting from the small gravel on the runway. It is helping preserve the edge everywhere but the first couple inches where the tape is not located.

Doug K

From: reflector-bounces at tvbf.org [mailto:reflector-bounces at tvbf.org] On Behalf Of Mark Magee
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2013 3:32 PM
To: Velocity Aircraft Owners and Builders list
Cc: reflector at tvbf.org
Subject: Re: REFLECTOR: MT Prop Damage

Thanks to all who replied, I will attempt repairs on this myself. Worst case scenario I have to send it in for a new leading edge if it doesn't repair well.
JB weld is miraculous...
Thanks

Mark B. Magee
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On Feb 7, 2013, at 7:15 AM, Dave T Nelson <dtnelson at us.ibm.com<mailto:dtnelson at us.ibm.com>> wrote:

Mark,

I had similar damage to my MT quite a few years ago, on a flight into the Oshkosh airshow.  I went to the MT booth and grabbed / dragged Eric out to my plane for an inspection.  He told me that as long as the SS leading edge hadn't broken (no holes or cracks), that I should be OK - repair with JB Weld and watch carefully.  That was at least 200 hours ago... I keep a close eye on it, but I haven't seen any issues.  My damage didn't appear quite as bad, but I'd sure try the JB weld route first.  Sorry, no picture handy...

Dave

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