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Old 10th Mar 2014, 07:58
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It is critical to understand that the type of damage that is essential to address in a metal prop because of the risk of the damage acting as stress riser and starting a fatigue crack is not going to be as critical on the protective strip on the leading edge of am MT prop.

These leading edges can be filled with a little thick resin to recover the profile as Long as the damage is small however the security of the leading edge protective strip is critical.

As said above these blades don't have a life and the only place in Europe that you can get new leading edges fitted is the factory, perhaps being so far from the factory a Southern Hemisphere repair facility is needed.
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