What is a "Heavy Blade"?

[N941WR]

Paul mentioned this in the ?You know you are old? thread:

Originally Posted by Ironflight

3) You always park the airplane with the prop horizontal, to make sure you don?t get a "heavy blade"?.

Here is why:
If your airplane has a wood prop, you would park it with the prop horizontal so moisture wouldn't collect on it and get absorbed by the lower blade, thus throwing it out of balance.

[Louise Hose]

Originally Posted by N941WR

If your airplane has a wood prop, you would park it with the prop horizontal so moisture wouldn't collect on it and get absorbed by the lower blade, thus throwing it out of balance.

Thanks, Bill, from all of us "younguns" who were too embarassed to ask.

[Dayton Murdock]

Hey Bill
What do you do with a 3 blade prop?

[joeboisselle]

I used to park my Luscombe in an area with trees surounding it. With a prop vertical, I usually had a heavy blade due to the birds in the trees making a toilet of the top blade. That's the first thing I thought of...

[N941WR]

Originally Posted by Dayton Murdock

Hey Bill
What do you do with a 3 blade prop?

Don't ever shut it down?

Hey Dayton, how's the -4 doing? Run over any F-4's yet?

[RVAddict]

I'll admit I pm'd Paul to ask. But i'm a youngn too!!

[c177tx]

You can prevent getting a heavy blade with faa approved prop wash...

[GAHco]

If you get that FAA approved prop wash, fix it right, take the prop off with the left handed crescent wrench and clean it real good before you put it back on with a right handed one!

[Ironflight]

You just have to experience the tactile pleasure that comes from hand-propping a J-3 with a big, fat wood prop....It can't be explained - you have to feel it for yourself.

It feels like....Aviation!!

I'll go back to my rocking chair now...

[osxuser]

The 150 with the dead battery is the closest I've gotten .