{"id":3721,"date":"2011-10-21T05:40:33","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:40:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/blog\/?p=3721"},"modified":"2011-10-21T05:40:33","modified_gmt":"2011-10-21T05:40:33","slug":"propeller-balancing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/?p=3721","title":{"rendered":"Propeller Balancing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Before driving Tandem at the edge of space the propellers need to be balanced.\u00a0 After balancing them with little pieces of tape I pull off and weight the tape. Then I weight out epoxy and use a syringe to eject it into the hollow tip of the blade. The blades are hollow carbon\/Kevlar blades we make ourselves.\u00a0 One prop set took 2.3 grams of epoxy and the other was way off and took 5.4 grams.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prop_bal1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3727\" title=\"prop_bal1\" src=\"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/prop_bal1-150x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before driving Tandem at the edge of space the propellers need to be balanced.\u00a0 After balancing them with little pieces of tape I pull off and weight the tape. Then I weight out epoxy and use a syringe to eject it into the hollow tip of the blade. The blades are hollow carbon\/Kevlar blades we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jpaerospace.com\/new_wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}