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Offline Megalodon

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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #15 on: January 31, 2010, 01:27:50 PM »
Are you sure its 85R-61 maybe 86?

1st number is the length... how long is it? any other numbers on it .....grab the super specs :)

anywho have a gander

http://www.modernwoodenpropellers.com/sensenich.htm
http://www.modernwoodenpropellers.com/sensenich_military.htm

maybe a Fairchaild PT-19?

Prolly more like this Phan  :D

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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #16 on: January 31, 2010, 01:47:51 PM »
What's the Length?  I'm thinking a stearman?

How about a pic?
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #17 on: January 31, 2010, 02:12:54 PM »
No letter prefix would make it prior to 1943

  There is a thin metal strip on the leading edge of the props.

like this?
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #18 on: January 31, 2010, 02:13:31 PM »
I'm not actually sure how much of the information I pulled off the stamp is correct.  It's so very faint - I saw examples of other propellers that had info stamped on the hub in very large lettering.

On this one, it's off to the side of the hub, and all lines (combined) probably only span about 3 inches.  So in addition to being extremely faint, they're small.

I did take a picture, but it's on my husband's computer... so I'll post one later (probably next week) after it's transferred from his to mine.
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #19 on: January 31, 2010, 02:14:03 PM »
No letter prefix would make it prior to 1943

like this?
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Yep =) Just like that, with the little circle impressions & everything!
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #20 on: January 31, 2010, 02:15:57 PM »
Nope, those were the only markings on it. There were rectangles on it (about 4 of them, which probably indicate where some sort of decals were at one time (annual registration or inspection maybe?)

Here's the marks, which I still have to decipher:
SENSENICH
PO No.1
T.O. No. 586
85R 5 61
CS-S (I think it says that... that line was hard to see)
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #21 on: January 31, 2010, 03:47:42 PM »
I was wrong - one of my kids found an additional number - the serial number - which we used on the sensenich site to determine it was made between Feb 61 & Nov 62. =)

(Yay Snapper for finding the serial #!)
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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #22 on: January 31, 2010, 04:10:36 PM »


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Re: wooden airplane propeller
« Reply #23 on: January 31, 2010, 04:14:30 PM »
Yeah! but darn pt-19 was a wwII trainer hehehe

What kind of plane will be on the wall?  :)
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