If you have damaged your aluminum propeller by hitting some kind of submerged object you should not run your boat much at with that propeller because a damaged boat prop is not balanced and true any more and can cause undo wear on the drive systems seals and bearings. You can get it repaired if it not in too bad of shape at a cost of a little less than a...
Read MoreBoat Propeller Brands Part Six: Solas Propellers
Solas Propellers has been in business since 1985 and produce aluminum props and stainless steel boat propellers for outboard motors and sterndrive boats. They also make impellers for personal watercraft. They constantly strive for improvement thru an outstanding research and development team that does all aspects of R & D including a huge amount of...
Read MoreBoat Propeller Brands Part Five: TurningPoint Propellers
TurningPoint Propellers make aluminum and stainless steel boat props for all brands of outboards and sterndrives. The company has been in the propeller business for almost 20 years now and is currently produciing their third generation of boat propellers. They are a very innovative company that has come out with some great new products over the years. They...
Read MoreBoat Propeller Brands Part Four: PowerTech Propellers
PowerTech propellers started up making boat props in 1986. They worked out of a small production shop located in Shreveport Louisiana producing performance propellers for small outboard motors. Soon afterwards they began expanding their line of props over time to include bigger and bigger boat propellers for the bigger motors. Today they produce high...
Read MoreBoat Propeller Brands Part Three: Quicksilver Propellers
Quicksilver propellers are a part of the Mercury Marine brand of boat props. Mercury has two separate lines of propellers that are basiclly the same props in each line. It’s not clear why they have done this. The Black Max line of props are only offered at the Mercury Marine service dealer level to customers and the Quicksilver line of propellers...
Read MoreBoat Propeller Brands Part 0ne: Michigan Wheel Propellers
When I first got into the boat propeller business in 1993, Michigan Wheel propellers were my first brand of props I sold. And for my first four years in business they were the only brand I sold. I have been selling them now for 21 years and have been very happy with their line of boat props in aluminum, stainless steel and inboard nibral...
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