Uses for a big shiny boat propeller?

[hotponyshoes]

I have been offered (at a price) a very large 316 stainless steel boat propeller.
Looks like this and is maybe 800mm O/D


It is very very well made (that photo is just a random example) and unused. The surface finishing looks like it's been robotically sanded or something and it would be a very satisfying job to polish it to a mirror shine!

But. I can't think of a sensible use for it..
Maybe some sort of water feature or cast it into epoxy to make a coffee table but I don't have the garden or the living room to suit either of those!

What I need are some swmbo friendly ideas so she does not go mental if I come back with it!!!

 

[brightspark]

stick a motor on it and tell her its a room fan

 

[MCKDAVID]

buy the rest of the boat.....easy....

 

[bourbon]

Put it on a boat?

 

[hotponyshoes]

A boat to fit it is out of my budget sadly

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

A boat to fit it is out of my budget sadly

Sell something in your yard, that will make space and £££ to buy the boat.

 

[Brad93]

It will of been CNC ground and polished

 

[optima21]

if its cheap enough, buy it and sell it on

 

[hotponyshoes]

Sell something in your yard, that will make space and £££ to buy the boat.

Only one part of that idea is going to make her happy...

 

[hotponyshoes]

if its cheap enough, buy it and sell it on

She's already not too happy as I have had a load of welding stuff from the honda closure and I still haven't sold any of that on yet!
But at least she doesn't know what it all is so I can pretend I have a use for it..

 

[The_Yellow_Ardvark]

Only one part of that idea is going to make her happy...

Is selling a wife still legal down there on the edge of the Levels?

 

[optima21]

She's already not too happy as I have had a load of welding stuff from the honda closure and I still haven't sold any of that on yet!
But at least she doesn't know what it all is so I can pretend I have a use for it..

easy say it came with that lot

 

[Brad93]

She's already not too happy as I have had a load of welding stuff from the honda closure and I still haven't sold any of that on yet!
But at least she doesn't know what it all is so I can pretend I have a use for it..

Any nice bits?

 

[Bullet2012]

The surface finishing looks like it's been robotically sanded or something

Many are now machined from a billet, and have what looks to be a rough surface.

 

[Onoff]

Coffee table.

 

[hotponyshoes]

Many are now machined from a billet, and have what looks to be a rough surface.

It might well have been machined as I can't see any casting flaws in it but the finish is sanded rather than machined but it's either been done by a man with a lot of patience and precision or by a robot/machine

 

[Keith 66]

The Diameter & Pitch should be stamped into one end or other of the central boss, this will give you an idea of value.

 

[Rkweld]

If you dont want to set it in resin for a coffee table what about in resin in the bottom of a shower tray?

 

[hotponyshoes]

Any nice bits?

No. I got outbid on most of it but have got the contents of the spares room so at least all the stuff I did get is new!
Lot of spare parts like Liners, drive rollers and torch parts.
And loads of pneumatic stuff. I'll get an advert up later!

 

[hotponyshoes]

The Diameter & Pitch should be stamped into one end or other of the central boss, this will give you an idea of value.

800x900 I think but I was too busy stroking it to really look at the numbers.
It might be worth thousands but unless I had a buyer lined up it might not be the easiest thing to move on.
And I'm not sure I would ever be able to part with it once I had humped it back to my place...