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rameses32

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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 2:11 am Post subject: Has anyone ever used Maranti timber in their Pietenpol?

Hey, ya don't know if ya don't ask. I was thinking about using layers of maranti and Oak to make my propeller.



Charley

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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 3:43 am Post subject: Has anyone ever used Maranti timber in their Pietenpol?

Charley,

 

 I don't think you would have any problems with maranti and oak. I have no idea what maranti is, but even if it's a little soft I would suspect the oak would make up the strength. When I observed Jerry Thornhill carve his prop (for the EAA replica Bleriot) at Oshkosh '07 he told me you can use just about anything within reason. I used ash for mine. He used mahogony for the Bleriot, and Hickory for the Camel replica he built.

 

 Dan Helsper

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rameses32

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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 4:47 am Post subject: Re: Has anyone ever used Meranti timber in their Pietenpol?

Meranti is a semi hard wood from Malaysia , also called Lauan, or Malaysain Mohogony. Class 4 strength, what ever that means. The grain in usually interlocking and straight. Just wondering if it has ever been used in Aircraft construction. Every lumber yard here in Austrralia has this timber and the availability of clear, straight grained lumber is in abundance. I am confident in it's ability to be used in a propeller, but I am wondering if it has been used in any structral applications.



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Posted: Sun Jun 07, 2009 11:25 pm Post subject: Has anyone ever used Maranti timber in their Pietenpol?

http://www.timber.net.au/index.php/species-revised/dark-red-meranti.html



Some of you may remember this stuff as "Philipine Mahogany"

I've used quite a bit of it for various things in the past.

I wouldn't use it for a prop myself. I still have two pieces of

1" X 6" X 8', BOTH of which are warped to unusability.

Now you know why I still have them. 



If you do plan on using it better get it now. It is estimated

that it will be logged out by 2012.



White Oak( not Red ), Ash, Birch, Maple, Walnut would be

decent choices.



Clif



Lady, you want me to answer you if this old airplane

is safe to fly? Just how in the world do you think it

got to be this old?

                                                             Jim Tavenner



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 Meranti is a semi hard wood from Malaysia , also called Lauan, or 

 Malaysain Mohogony. Class 4 strength, what ever that means. The grain in 

 usually interlocking and straight. Just wondering if it has ever been used 

 in Aircraft construction. Every lumber yard here in Austrralia has this 

 timber and the availability of clear, straight grained lumber is in 

 abundance. I am confident in it's ability to be used in a propeller, but I 

 am wondering if it has been used in any structral applications.



 Charley





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