Sometimes I balance with nail paint too, something to add: the nail paint have solvents, when dry is ligther so the prop unbalance again, the process it to paint and wait that dries and re-check; the other consideration is not to paint at the prop ends because a little crash unbalance the props, do it a little inner, and the last tip, I use transparent one so it's looks more pretty ;)......
and buy yours, don't take your wife ones or your drone is going to finish in the trash ;)
When the wife is at home I utilize Testors silver enamel ; but, like Cala mentioned earlier.....when she is out of the house I take out her 60 seconds quick drying finger nail paint.....
Good video Dene....something to note is that pending the brand and chord width of some props is that they should also be balanced in their vertical axis... this explains why some folks often get frustrated and wonder why on occasion they can quickly achieve good balance in one position horizontally but yet if they happen to flip prop over ( horizontally also ) and the prop now wants to slowly creep to one side ( because now the heavy side of the hub is above the pivot point ).
Many moons ago during my days of U/C flying we would take advantage of slightly out of balance props to counter balance single piston motor vibrations. Today we can do the same if willing to go to the trouble of dynamic balancing by positioning prop on motor in specific locations or even offsetting those metal prop washers (often hole is larger then motor shaft) that hold down our electric props and thus utilizing a configuration that promotes less vibes.
But anyway we should always consider balancing our props vertically in addition to the common practice of horizontal balancing and thus taller balancing fixtures are a good piece of kit to also have on hand.
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Thanks Dene! great insights!
D M Earl ll
Sometimes I balance with nail paint too, something to add: the nail paint have solvents, when dry is ligther so the prop unbalance again, the process it to paint and wait that dries and re-check; the other consideration is not to paint at the prop ends because a little crash unbalance the props, do it a little inner, and the last tip, I use transparent one so it's looks more pretty ;)......
and buy yours, don't take your wife ones or your drone is going to finish in the trash ;)
(prefer to choose quick dry ones)
When the wife is at home I utilize Testors silver enamel ; but, like Cala mentioned earlier.....when she is out of the house I take out her 60 seconds quick drying finger nail paint.....
Good video Dene....something to note is that pending the brand and chord width of some props is that they should also be balanced in their vertical axis... this explains why some folks often get frustrated and wonder why on occasion they can quickly achieve good balance in one position horizontally but yet if they happen to flip prop over ( horizontally also ) and the prop now wants to slowly creep to one side ( because now the heavy side of the hub is above the pivot point ).
Many moons ago during my days of U/C flying we would take advantage of slightly out of balance props to counter balance single piston motor vibrations. Today we can do the same if willing to go to the trouble of dynamic balancing by positioning prop on motor in specific locations or even offsetting those metal prop washers (often hole is larger then motor shaft) that hold down our electric props and thus utilizing a configuration that promotes less vibes.
But anyway we should always consider balancing our props vertically in addition to the common practice of horizontal balancing and thus taller balancing fixtures are a good piece of kit to also have on hand.
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