I have had a prince prop for a few years. Very smooth and had no problems except that rain erodes the leading edge. I just can not pull the throttle back when I run through some rain. I do have leading edge protectors on it. I sent it back in to Lonnie and he replaced the leading edge protectors, and repainted the prop and it looks like new again. I have since converted to constant speed prop which has increased my climb but the top end speed is the same. I have the propeller for sale if interested. It is for a 360 lycoming. New price $2000. I just paid $500 last summer for the re-condition. I'll sell it for $1000.
I have had a prince prop for a few years. Very smooth and had no problems except that rain erodes the leading edge. I just can not pull the throttle back when I run through some rain. I do have leading edge protectors on it. I sent it back in to Lonnie and he replaced the leading edge protectors, and repainted the prop and it looks like new again. I have since converted to constant speed prop which has increased my climb but the top end speed is the same. I have the propeller for sale if interested. It is for a 360 lycoming. New price $2000. I just paid $500 last summer for the re-condition. I'll sell it for $1000.
> "but until they start using a metal leading edge protector I would classify it as a VFR-only prop."
I'll second that. Very light rain trashed the outside leading edges of my Prince recently. I've run through similar rain with a Sterba with the urethane leading edge protection with no damage. Prince needs to do some better leading edge protection engineering - it's actually a manufacturing defect if you pay extra for leading edge protection and then ruin your edges with light rain . . . and then get charged to fix it on top of it all. Lonnie is a nice guy, but that's plain bad business.
Maybe more responsive means that RPM changes more quickly due to less rotating mass, I can't figure out what the "more torque" means, at all....The Sensenich did seem to have more torque than the Prince (probably becauce of the weight) but the Prince was more responsive...
Maybe more responsive means that RPM changes more quickly due to less rotating mass, I can't figure out what the "more torque" means, at all.
Tommy is the prince a 3 blade prop?
I love my P-Tip but it is water soluble. In fact it is at Prince right now getting redone. Lonnie said he is installing a new and improved leading edge protector. We will see. I never had that problem with either a Sterba or Performance props but then again they didn't have the T/O power of the P-Tip either. I guess everything is a comprimise.