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Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 7:53 am
by Mike Andrew
Ha ha , lucky guess.
Surprised that it fell off while going forward , the thrust would have been pushing
the prop onto the shaft.
Thought you must have been reversing away from the ramp.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:55 am
by Simon Gilbert
No didn't get it back. So there is a SS prop (have an idea this one is about $600) in 3m of murky muddy water about 100m off the Belmont ramp. Going on how we drifted perhaps 2-300 square meters...and we didn't have a functioning boat to look for it.
Hopefully will 'get it back' from the service company.
Dropped off when at idle. I'm not a mechanical engineer but wouldn't it be 'thrusted' forward onto the motor when motor was going forward...that is the force to make the boat go forward. Guessing nut came undone due to vibration and no load (apart from spline) when doing high forward speed and then weight of the prop caused it to slip of the recently lubricated shaft.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 10:00 am
by peter birch
Had to go to the dunny with no crap paper.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 1:12 pm
by Simon Gilbert
That's a bit of a conversation stopper Peter...not sure about the connection to this topic (may be I'm a little slow)
Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 2:23 pm
by Tony Ong
Simon Gilbert wrote: Wed Mar 18, 2020 8:55 am
No didn't get it back. So there is a SS prop (have an idea this one is about $600) in 3m of murky muddy water about 100m off the Belmont ramp. Going on how we drifted perhaps 2-300 square meters...and we didn't have a functioning boat to look for it.
Hopefully will 'get it back' from the service company.
Dropped off when at idle. I'm not a mechanical engineer but wouldn't it be 'thrusted' forward onto the motor when motor was going forward...that is the force to make the boat go forward. Guessing nut came undone due to vibration and no load (apart from spline) when doing high forward speed and then weight of the prop caused it to slip of the recently lubricated shaft.
So we have a new "shiny rock" for the bream to hang round.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Wed Mar 18, 2020 6:43 pm
by peter birch
ADD on Simon- swims the boat back to the ramp,multi tasking .those toilets would t have any paper.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 6:53 am
by daniel horne
Oh wow and I thought my boat gives me the shits haha
It could have been worse hey hurdy haha
Re: Quiz
Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:58 pm
by Hirdy
Yep.
Re: Quiz
Posted: Sat Mar 21, 2020 4:35 pm
by Simon Gilbert
So Hirdy & daniel....seems like a story here. Did one of you misplace a whole motor??
Re: Quiz
Posted: Sun Mar 22, 2020 5:03 pm
by daniel horne
I thought I’d invite a few fellow fly fishos on board for a field day an just one drama after the next with my engine
I could have thrown it over board that day
But this resulted in putting Graeme on a flat with mullet as far as the eye could see