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...
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Most boat propellers made out of aluminum and stainless steel are produced in a similar way using a one piece cast system. The manufacturing process starts out with melting down wax pellets, then the melted wax is injected into a master mold that makes a propeller shaped out of the wax once the wax cools down and hardens. A cylinder extension called the...
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