I just took my prop over to MT USA in Deland, FL to get it repainted after 235 hours and a year and a half flying. Flying in rain is the culprit and is pretty well known in the MT community. My prop is black with yellow tips, so the grey primer shows up pretty clearly and your observation that it looks hideous is correct. I flew it over to Deland a few months ago and had them look at it to make sure the problem was only cosmetic. Juergen, at MT, confirmed this for me. He suggested that I paint the prop grey so the erosion won't looks so bad!!!!!!!
Not my idea of a fix, but I think he was serious! Anyway, I love everything else about the prop but I will avoid rain as much as possible and just live with it. I am a 30 minute drive to Deland, so at least I don't have such a long turnaround time.
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David Maib
RV-10 N380DM
New Smyrna Beach, FL
VAF Paid 1/21/2020
"In '69 I was 21, and I called the road my own"
Jackson Browne
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