Combat Props

This site was last updated on February 15, 2008.

Suppliers, sizes, balancing.

A prop balancer, made by Dubro. I picked mine up at the local hobby shop.

This is a pitch gauge. You can use it to help you accurately set the face pitch of your props at different radii. Prather builds a popular unit, but it seems generally unavailable. This one is built by Edmunds Engineering. You can buy one from Darrol Cady.

Here's a picture illustrating a problem with APC props. The shaft holes are drilled off center! Luckily, the molded hole is correct and can be used as a reference when drilling out the hole for a Nelson.