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Old 04-19-2020, 07:19 PM   #13
Chuck Sea/Tac
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Default Re: Good time to check your fan blades

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Originally Posted by Sunnybrook Farm View Post
I have my original propeller sitting on the work bench, it is a beautiful fan but I am running 3 four blades and a new aluminum propeller. I see that I need to check the four blades. I drove an original across 3 states when I was a kid for a guy, someone had sawed the ends off of a steel propeller fan for some unknown reason but it held together, I don't know what I was thinking other than the guy had a babe daughter.
A engineer,Russell Babke(spl), in the Seattle club, who wrote several articles in the 70’sor 80’s, for mafca and I think skinned knuckles, did a data study on fan blades. He cut them down to change the harmonics ect. I’m sure you could find his article somewhere. Possible this was done because of the articles, maybe just because one cracked and the P.O. of your car was just balancing it? Who knows
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