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Re: Balancing Props

Subject: Re: Balancing Props
From: Tony Krzyzewski <tonyk@kaon.co.nz>
Date: Sat, 16 Mar 2002 16:58:13
> 
> Anyone had this done and how did it fair? 

Very well thank you. I think the prop on the front of ZK-UDB has been 
dynamically balance checked about 20 times. Each time we took the blades off 
the hub we checked the balance again... to the extent that the balancer ended 
up living in the hangar. We also have a vibration analyser which gets stuck on

the aircraft every so often and this has confirmed that dynamic balancing makes

a dramatic difference to the vibration patterns. We ended up balancing the prop

so well that we actually suspected the pickup sensor had failed and replaced 
the sensor!

To balance the prop we ended up using washers behind the bolts.

Tony



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