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Wooden Propellers 101
MerlinV
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 - 09:16 AM UTC
Greetings all.

If you have been following my Roden BE2c build over on the other forum, you will know that I have made ny first "Serious" attempt at hand carving a four blader.
Here is the process in photgraphic form.





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MerlinV
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 - 09:19 AM UTC
...Cont'd






The timber is Cedar.
This attempt will not be used.

Cheers,

Hugh
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JackFlash
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Posted: Monday, February 25, 2008 - 10:13 AM UTC
Excellent Hugh! Practice makes perfect.
JackFlash
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Posted: Saturday, December 20, 2008 - 03:55 PM UTC
Here is another pair of painted kit (Roden 1/32) propellers for rotary engined aircraft. Axial on top, Heine below.
JackFlash
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Posted: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 - 09:14 AM UTC
Just Bringing this up for a fellow modeler who asked me about laminating wood for propellers.
Rotebaron
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Posted: Thursday, December 16, 2010 - 05:20 PM UTC
WOW!!!!!!this is a real scale propo construction, really amazing this work. some times I buid my own props in indoor airmodels, but this is a master work.


Cheers.

Al
warreni
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Posted: Thursday, July 28, 2011 - 11:53 AM UTC
Nice guide Stephen.
Just remember though, you need to study the photos of the particular plane you are modelling to see whether or not it had the differnet coloured woods used in the propellor.
Also remember, propellors got changed very often on this old aircraft as it was not possible to just change a blade like in most moden propellors. And this was a common occurence with planes operating from rough fields with lots of FOD everywhere just waiting to smack into the nice, shiny propellor. Even a relatively small stone can do a lot of damage if it hits in the wrong place.
Hmmm.. I just had a brain wave about using styrene to do the same thing as the wood...
JackFlash
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Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 03:25 PM UTC
Here is a modern reproduction of stamped propeller data.


Here is one branded in place on an original.


Fokker D.VII (Mercedes D.IIIa & aü) propellers were 2750 / 2800 by 2100 / 2200 mm. Slightly different propellers were used on BMW.IIIa powered machines.

JackFlash
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Posted: Thursday, February 23, 2012 - 03:31 PM UTC
Here is another bit of info on the Albatros types.


Quoted Text

Rob Gardner wrote "From the records that I have so far, the following makers made props for various Albatros aircraft;

Astra
Axial
Eta
Behrend & Rüggebrecht
Garuda
Heine
Imperial
Reschke
Wolff
Wotan

Of these makers, five made props for the Albatros D V

Axial
Garuda
Heine
Wolff
Wotan

Others may have as well because I have details of a further eight Albatri props where I could not identify the maker.

The Axial Albatros DV prop was the Type 87. This was probably used on an earlier type of aircraft first as the Albatros D III used the Type 95 which was also used on the Fokker D VII and D VIII. The Fokker D VII also used an Axial Type 18 62 prop.

You can see that I have not yet unravelled Axial's type numbering. I have details of thirteen so far. If any other forumite can give me details of any other Axial type and its use I would be extremely grateful."
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