Return-Path: Sender: (Marvin Kaye) To: flyrotary Date: Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:31:30 -0400 Message-ID: X-Original-Return-Path: Received: from bree.pipcom.com ([204.92.62.3] verified) by logan.com (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.0b9) with SMTP id 1803714 for flyrotary@lancaironline.net; Sat, 12 Oct 2002 00:00:37 -0400 Received: (qmail 9560 invoked from network); 12 Oct 2002 04:00:35 -0000 Received: from ras3-3.pipcom.com (HELO new) (204.92.62.135) by bree.pipcom.com with SMTP; 12 Oct 2002 04:00:35 -0000 X-Original-Message-ID: <005701c271a3$b4e7e720$5ed9fea9@new> From: "Peter Cowan" X-Original-To: "Rotary motors in aircraft" References: Subject: Re: [FlyRotary] Re: dynamic balancing X-Original-Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 23:58:25 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Be advised that just ballancing > the prop end to end is a waste of time. It must be ballanced chord-wise as > wel, and this is where I have seen the biggest imballance. > > Tracy Tracy, what kind of a fixture do you use to balance chord-wise? I have a shaft on bearings for span wise but can't visualise doing it in the other direction. Peter