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**Dockhead** · 08-12-2014, 15:09

How do you hold the shaft?

I found it very hard to do when I re-installed my prop after get it back from a factory overhaul, last time I was on the hard.

I'll be on the hard for a few weeks again in the spring, and want to be sure to get it cinched down properly -- how do you do it?

fstbttms · 08-12-2014, 15:19

Run a length of lumber (I use a 2X2) between the strut and the rudder. Rotate the prop until a blade comes into contact with it. Problem solved.

If the distance between the strut and rudder is too reat, you can pin the end of the lumber between the forward end of the shaft and hull. Pull the other end as close in to the prop as possible. Then rotate the prop into it. This will also work.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q3ntQF_Csk

**a64pilot** · 08-12-2014, 15:21

If it's on the hard a piece of 4x4 or similar will work, one end on the ground of course

**Dockhead** · 08-12-2014, 15:49

Quote:

Originally Posted by fstbttms

Run a length of lumber (I use a 2X2) between the strut and the rudder. Rotate the prop until a blade comes into contact with it. Problem solved.

If the distance between the strut and rudder is too reat, you can pin the end of the lumber between the forward end of the shaft and hull. Pull the other end as close in to the prop as possible. Then rotate the prop into it. This will also work.