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You thow Bravo 1 blades in 2-3 hours??
Are you using Box Stock or Labbed propellers? If Labbed, who is doing the work? Something strange going on there. Have you had multiple failures? What kind of boat? Have you talked to Mercury?
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That's right....2-3 hours on several sets of Bravo I's.
These where bone stock props that we tried to use for our "standard" for testing different setups. Never used these props for anything but a base-line run whenever we made a change in the boat setup. Problem was...we couldn't keep the Bravo's on long enough to keep a consistant standard. Every 2-3 hours...bang...there went another blade or we would find a crack. If we did race a set Bravos, they had to be new, and would last the race, but would usually come back with a crack in one of the blades
Yes, I did talk to Mercury...and Dennis C...several times...no help from them. They where having issues with the Spiderman boat and suggested we go to the #6 drive. That wasn't a option for us. Todd had been throwing blades on Bravo props left and right and needed a new set for every race...he got another boat with #6 drives....that solved his problem.
We had better luck with Herings, but they are hard ot get and we couldn't replace them when they would throw a blade.
When the Maximus prop came out, we where the first team to try them. The Maximus had just been released and X-Site didn't even have them...they had to have a few sets sent in overnight for us to test. Maximus did work...at least they didn't crack or throw blades. But they where SLOW and the quality was awful. We would check each prop and find that nine times out of ten at least two blades on each prop would be different lengths. Stock or lab fininsh, it didn't make any difference...we tried everything we could get our hands on.
We approched our prop program with an open mind...looking for the best combination avaliable...regardless of what everyone else was using. We didn't have any pre-conceved opinions...we just wanted the best setup we could put together.
We ended up running the Maximus props (Lab finished by Throttle-Up) until we tried the Throttle-Up CNC prop. They say there's no 10 mph prop.....well how about a 6 mph prop. That's what we got...right out of the box. Another thing I like about the Throttle-Up prop is that with the CNC process, we can try very minute changes from prop to prop to really dial-in our setup.
So far they have been just like a Timex...take a licking and keep on ticking.
Is there a better prop out there?
Probably...but it hasn't come out of Matt's head and into the CNC machine.....yet.
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