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ICDEDPPL 12-06-2013 08:59 PM


Originally Posted by FIXX (Post 4036681)
+1 john and his son are the best in my area and they dont treat you like a customer,they treat you like a true friend..its not all about business with them and they are way reasonable then others and their quality of work is by far perfect every time..

+2 he answers his phone and returns calls. I know crazy right!?!?

bbladesprops 12-06-2013 09:21 PM


Originally Posted by mptrimshop (Post 4037827)
I have 2 sets of mirage + 25's for my boat. Now you guys have tossing the idea around about sending one set to Blades and a set to another........ See what happens..... Run them both on same day back to back



I'll wait see the winter special

Love it!
How should we monitor the before and after results?

Brett

PremierPOWER 12-06-2013 10:01 PM

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We've had good luck with general propeller in Sarasota

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mptrimshop 12-06-2013 10:08 PM


Originally Posted by bbladesprops (Post 4037864)
Love it!
How should we monitor the before and after results?

Brett

I have one set that's Dinged up I will send ya and I have a stock set..... When it gets warm ill run those back to back.... Then I will send the stock set out ... When I get them back ill run them with yours back to back. I will record it all on my iPhone.......... Unless I can find one more set of 25+'s then I could due all 3 same day.

ICDEDPPL 12-07-2013 08:32 AM

OMG Premier what the hell did you hit??

Nice after shot thou for sure!

PremierPOWER 12-07-2013 01:54 PM

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Originally Posted by ICDEDPPL (Post 4037990)
OMG Premier what the hell did you hit??

Nice after shot thou for sure!

Nothing other than each other surprisingly. Very concerning but we recently realized that if the center drive is trimmed even slightly higher than the outer drives, the tie bars will pull the outer drives in and especially on turns, the props will hit each other. So after they were repaired, I took the boat out on Thanksgiving evening to make sure all was good before our fun run on Saturday. Paid very close attention to the trim indicators and then this :( Did it again, although not as bad. Can't rely on the mechanical indicators anymore so switching out to Livorsi LED. The mechanical cable indicators are not precise enough. We were still able to make the run since they weren't badly damaged but then blew a transmission lol. It's always something. Props are back at general propeller and getting cyborg transmissions/ livorsi indicators. Hopefully no issues from here on out

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mptrimshop 12-07-2013 02:03 PM

Wow.... Have you ever heard of this problem befor? There has to be way to prevent that

PremierPOWER 12-07-2013 02:31 PM

We bought the boat in 2009 and ran it dozens of times with no issues. Then we dinged all 3 props about 2 years ago slightly but thought we got tangled in some crab buoys. Thought nothing of it until recently when all 3 were tore up again. We had just gone to barnacle Phil's which is very shallow and thought we hit bottom. But later realized that when I was in the shallow water, I trimmed the center drive higher to avoid hitting the bottom and the props hit. I've tried searching it but found nothing on the forums about others having this problem with triples. But then again, there aren't a whole lot of boats out there to begin with that have triple NXT or number 6's. There were 3 Donzis with triple NXT's, 2 Nortechs with triple NXT (that I know of), couple Fountains, some 50 Nortechs with triple 6's and all the first gen Cig 50. According to Doug Valentine, it's a known problem for triples but I haven't found much. My only thought on a fix is to have very accurate trim indicators and possibly go smaller diameter on the center prop. These props cost too much money to be having them tore up like this.

ICDEDPPL 12-07-2013 02:54 PM

Wow I`m crying just thinking about those props being tore up, and doing it twice! :faint2:
They did an amazing job fixing them thats for sure!

FIXX 12-07-2013 03:06 PM


Originally Posted by PremierPOWER (Post 4038164)
Nothing other than each other surprisingly. Very concerning but we recently realized that if the center drive is trimmed even slightly higher than the outer drives, the tie bars will pull the outer drives in and especially on turns, the props will hit each other. So after they were repaired, I took the boat out on Thanksgiving evening to make sure all was good before our fun run on Saturday. Paid very close attention to the trim indicators and then this :( Did it again, although not as bad. Can't rely on the mechanical indicators anymore so switching out to Livorsi LED. The mechanical cable indicators are not precise enough. We were still able to make the run since they weren't badly damaged but then blew a transmission lol. It's always something. Props are back at general propeller and getting cyborg transmissions/ livorsi indicators. Hopefully no issues from here on out

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wow so that explains the blown trans trend!.. i would run a smaller diameter and bigger pitch prop on the center drive..that really sucks!


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