What happens when your prop gets overhauled?? Pt. 1
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- čas přidán 22. 07. 2024
- Every major safety component on any aircraft, be it a light-civil, military or commercial must get inspected & overhauled at predetermined intervals, and in the civilian aviation world, this is known as TBO- Time Between Overhaul. When's yours?
Do you understand how your prop works, or have you ever seen the guts of your prop to understand it? We answer all these THRILLING questions in this two-part video about propeller overhauls.
Join me over at my buddy Jason's world-class prop repair & overhaul shop, Texas Aircraft Propeller & Accessories for a full-access tour of what happens to your prop when it's at his facility getting overhauled.
*This is not an an ad or sponsored video, but rather insight for you of the importance of having a seemingly good prop taken apart, inspected, reassembled & balanced.
Check out Jason's shop for all your propeller repair/overhaul needs: txairprop.com/
Great tour, thank you for the video. This brought back lots of memories for me, as I went to A&P school in CT back in the early 80s, and we had a lot of similar equipment; the bead blaster, the magnaflux / zyglo NDT testing, we had a paint shop where we actually painted general aviation aircraft in as well as aircraft (Midget Mustang) that were flown at Oshkosh.
The info at 3:00 finally got me to understand how the constant speed prop works. Thanks!
there are actually more than one type of CS prop- some of them have external links (like turbine units) and some have internal links/dowels (smaller props)- all were actuated by crank oil pressure.
Very quiet professional explanation of the process! Thank you🎉
Great video showcasing what many don't understand...flying airplanes is a by-product of what people like Jason and his team do...
True story! Thanks for watching, Rocco!
...and what many are forbidden to work on
That’s fantastic thanks for showing this.
I stumbled upon this video and found it amazing to see what the process is like for overhauling a prop! Great coverage! This is in my backyard...I live in Clear Lake area!
Very nice, thanks for uploading, especially liked the attention to detail.
@Peyton Deshawn Nobody cares . . .
its very important because a prop failure can bring an aircraft down in a hurry....if youre in that plane- you DEFINITELY care.
Very nice!!
Thanks!
This was fascinating! I love stuff like this. There is a place about 30 minutes from me called Covington, and they do radial and PT6 overhauls. I got showed around there a couple of years ago and it was a blast. I would love to see this in person sometime too!
Oh, cool! I would LOVE to do a segment on that place- the PT6 and radial engines are so iconic & cool!
Thanks for watching!!
i used to do NDI on jugs and other engine parts- for beer money. i even did a lot of off-road stuff, but we rented a shop next door for those activities as we were a prop repair station and all non-prop stuff had to go next door in case we got inspected. i had to sneak the ferrous-metal parts into our wet-mag room at night- we had a big, old wet-mag bench. our shop (san diego propeller & accessory) was at gillespie field and i don't know who has the fixtures and equipment nowadays. we had an owatonna 100-ton press that we used to use to break ferrules from mccauley blades- the cheater bar was 20 feet long! some of the tighter ferrules would require all four of us (about 700 lbs of guys bouncing in unison) hanging from that damn cheater bar- when they broke loose it was like a gunshot. next to building turbine props- those were my favorite jobs. we had all the old benches and balancer stand that were used at general dynamics/convair during The War.
The skinnyman and Fatman what a combo,perfect for overhauling propellers.
cool machine to inspect blades. we had to do it the old-fashion way- marking off the reference points and measuring them by hand. you guys have a lot more infrastructure than our little shop. all those steps in the tanks were done by hand at our shop. if we had our shop setup today- the california epa would be constantly up our asses- you don't want that.
Dude, I want that P3 Prop shirt! Nice video. Keep um comin!
Athankyou- I appreciate the support! Share it with all yer buddies! LOL
Ok that's really cool. I had no idea there were anti icing systems. That's really groovy!
Oh yes- and that’s just the prop! (We haven’t even started talking about the wings or horizontal & vertical stabilizers!
de-I boots (and their associated electric slip-ring) are just a small part of the system- and also one of the easiest procedures to do as far as gluing and rolling the boots on.
3:05 I swear I've seen that guy in the red before. He's one of the main characters in World of Warcraft!! Seriously!! I would recognize him anywhere!!
Hahahahaha
Wow!! There’s lots to it. $$$$$$$$
Very nice good 👍
How many flight hours in do you need to get an overhaul done on the props? The same time as the engine needs overhaul or do the props last longer?
That’s a good (but broad) question, David- each manufacturer publishes the TBO (time between overhaul) in the documentation of the given prop in question. So the short answer to your question is that it varies by manufacturer, and sometimes by model.
Thanks for watching!!
no- the props aren't as well-protected as the engine parts. the biggest enemy of general aviation propellers are inattentive pilots mowing down ground lights with their propellers- the blades don't like that too much- but prop shops do....also propellers operating on unimproved runways obviously live a tougher life.
6 years recommended
OMG! Lazerbeams! Pew-Pew-Pew! Sorry, channeled some early stage memes for a minute there 😄
Be careful with that NAOH, faceshield gloves and apron at minimum. You won’t like what it does to skin. Nice shop and thanks for the tour.
thanks for your concern, but he does this for a living- i would think thats one of the first things he learned. hell- even safety-kleen solvent can burn your skin if it gets into your gloves while cleaning parts.
7:53 Electric hoist. You can buy one for about $100 on ebay.
maybe a cheap imported hoist- good quality domestic-made hoists are easily several hundred dollars used.
Do you need to be a full fledege A and P in order to learn about prop overhaul?
you could be, but you won't be able to sign off on anything. a&p techs are not permitted to disassemble or repair propellers. they can do r&r or dress/clean/paint minor prop blade nicks or scratches. pilots and owners are also permitted to do these procedures. in order to sign approval for a repair or yellow-tag refresh/overhaul- you must be an FAA-certified temporary propeller airman.
Nice video hope one day your teams created UFO technology props,nice works man,
as long as the check doesn't bounce- why not?
That chain's gotta go!
Is this Me Clean or Kurt Angles brother?
Both?
That’s why it’s $5k to overhaul props. Very cool.
thats prolly the lower end of the scale nowadays- we were getting nearly that much in the 80's.
instead of a glider why can't he use a steel wire ?
You open your wallet, checkbook and savings, take ALL the money and hand it to the prop shop....