{"id":3587,"date":"2017-04-30T12:09:07","date_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3587"},"modified":"2017-04-30T12:09:07","modified_gmt":"2017-04-30T02:09:07","slug":"kievprop-propeller-balancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3587","title":{"rendered":"KievProp propeller balancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pUZfUMUXZp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-3589\" src=\"http:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kievprop-balancing.jpg?w=627\" alt=\"\" width=\"627\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kievprop-balancing.jpg 1323w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kievprop-balancing-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kievprop-balancing-1024x543.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/kievprop-balancing-768x407.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 627px) 100vw, 627px\" \/><\/a>Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=pUZfUMUXZp4\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">great little video about how to statically balance your KievProp<\/a> &#8211; ie off the aeroplane. I suppose the technique could be used for any type of propeller. It certainly works here!<\/p>\n<p>As a matter of interest, you can also dynamically balance your propeller &#8211; ie when attached to the aeroplane, with the engine running. However, this does need a piece of electronic kit (which is not cheap and simple) which in principle works in much the same way as the static balancer.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, for an inexpensive and excellent balancer, the static approach works well.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; be sure the carburettors are correctly balanced (ideally with the engine running) and the blade pitches are all exactly the same&#8230;not even a skerrick out!<\/p>\n<p>As usual, click on the picture or the link to get you to the video.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a great little video about how to statically balance your KievProp &#8211; ie off the aeroplane. I suppose the technique could be used for any type of propeller. It certainly works here! As a matter of interest, you can &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/?p=3587\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[556,788],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3587"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3587"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/foxbatpilot.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}