Re: repitch a stainless prop?
Well, they sorta can but really they can't, but, sure, they can do it.<br /><br />The pitch of most props, and by that I mean far and away the majority of them, is not consistant across its entier length. The various prop manufacturers use different averaging systems to come up with the stated pitch. At any rate when you get it repitched, which will usually be limited to 2" of change for a staninless prop, what they are going to do is really more like bending additional cut into the tips. The effect is the same though so you really don't much care. In order to really do it right they'd have to cut the blades off, reposition them, then weld them back on and refinish the prop. That would cost as much as a new prop. So they bend them. As I remember the last stainless one I had repitched was done by a shop in Virgini Beach (not Bay Propeller) and it ran me right around $75, but I can't remember if they stuck a new hub in it too.<br /><br />I also had a 4-blade stainless retuned by Bay Propeller in Chesapeake, Virginia (my favorite prop shop) and in the process the bent the pitch of each individual blade back so they were all true, took out all the ooops marks and polished it, and then they finished up by blancing the prop. Having that done ran me about a hundred bucks as I recall but its a lot cheaper than a new lower unit.<br /><br />Thom
