Understandable slip, Danny, I could never understand why the Sea Prince was not a Sea Pembroke, as the Pembroke was the RAF version of the Prince, but the Fleet Air Arm always did things differently and always did them very well. Hopefully it still does.
Back into my 1970 engineer's overalls, I remember many trips in different aircraft to Scottish Aviation at Prestwick. Scottish were agents for all sorts of things including avionics (hence my trips for annual checks), Hartzell and Hamilton propellors, Lycoming and Continental engines, and in particular the Pratt and Whitney Twin Wasp as used in DC-3/Dakotas and DC-4s.
On several occasions I saw rebuilds of these magnificent radials after they had blown a cylinder or head clean through the cowling. Apparently they would continue to run until all the oil was thrown from the hole in the crankcase. Nobody could match your brake drum saga, Danny, but a Hartzell HC-C2YK VP prop is quite a squeeze in the cabin of a Cherokee
