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Re: Propeller
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Date: 
Tue, 19 Oct 1999 15:09:02 GMT
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Mr L F Braun wrote:
> 
> Erin Windross wrote:
> 
> > I have a problem.
> > My ship is getting to be so big that the propellers I have for it are way too
> > small. Does anyone have any suggestions for propellers that use few bricks or
> > plates?
> > 
> > (The dimensions of my ship are: Length 5' 6", Width 11", Height 1' 9")
> 
> You'd be surprised at how small the propellers on some heavy ships really are.
> What propellers are you using?  There are several gradations:  The Divers sort
> (miniature), the 3-blade Technic sort, and the 4-blade Classic types. (3x3).  For
> a ship 11" wide, I'd think that some variant of the 4-blade Freestyle prop would
> work.
> 
> LFB. (Who only makes waterline models, in part because of that reason...)

There are also the 3 blade propellers used in the various adventurers
airplanes, plus the 3 bladed propeller used on the Rock Raiders Tunnel
Transport. The 3 bladed adventurers propeller would probably look the
best for boat useage. There's also the 2 bladed large propeller with
technic axle hole. I used two of these rigged up to a motor and mounted
from a Mega Blocks boat hull and wound up with a boat which steamed the
length of my bathtub fairly well. Unfortuanately, the divers propeller
is the only one which looks like a boat propeller as opposed to an
airplane propeller.

--
Frank Filz

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  Re: Propeller
 
(...) You'd be surprised at how small the propellers on some heavy ships really are. What propellers are you using? There are several gradations: The Divers sort (miniature), the 3-blade Technic sort, and the 4-blade Classic types. (3x3). For a (...) (27 years ago, 19-Oct-99, to lugnet.boats)

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