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20 year old CS prop - overhaul or nah?

SquawkVFR

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Just bought this plane. Prop is 20 years old. No leaks. Looks super clean. Never been overhauled. Is it time?

Not sure what the white streak in the last pic is.

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You will not get a consensus on this question. The only "100%" safe thing to do is to send it out for an IRAN. If you have the money and time, there is little downside to an IRAN. Mike Busch would probably say just fly it, since he says that there are very, very few cases of a prop like this causing an off-field landing.
 
Agree that an IRAN is the most severe action you should take. An overhaul process REQUIRES that you replace certain hardware and grind the surface of the blades. No sense in either one since all you are really concerned about is the unlikely event of severe unseen corrosion which might compromise the structure of the blade.
 
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