Uses for a big shiny boat propeller?

[badabec]

Stick a light bulb on it

 

[badabec]

swmbo friendly idea

Tie it around your neck and go swimming.

 

[anto44]

Mount it on a bearing fitted to a pole and put it in the garden like a man sized version of this

 

[DanZac]

You could always build a Go go gadget helicopter hat

 

[hotponyshoes]

It's at least 2 people to lift it. I don't fancy the idea of it spinning around on anything that I have welded together!!

 

[Wildatlanticwelder]

Make a giant wind vane out of it , build a big rudder to catch the wind, mount the propeller to the rudder an a cars wheel bearing you could have it mounted, rotating on a pole , fit a round pointy lamp on the nose of the prop...

 

[Mick Annick]

I’ve got a Belgian mate who’s a retired boat propellor salesman…

 

[bert]

What about making a clock out of it.

I thought mine were big at 22" each but they are brass at 10kg each

 

[eLuSiVeMiTe]

Led and a controller while spinning it up. And a lot of patience to program it for best effect.

 

[roblane65]

The vision of some one sat stroking a SS propeller ...... umm I think you maybe needing some Help.

 

[James1979]

The vision of some one sat stroking a SS propeller ...... umm I think you maybe needing some Help.

I need help after that vision!

Cheers for that.

 

[500e]

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

They have no soul mine is the same deep down

 

[Keith 66]

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...

That equates to 31 1/2" Dia x 35 1/2" pitch. That is a seriously big prop, Its the sort of thing a steam engine might swing. way too good to stick a lightbulb on.

 

[Johnnybravo]

Build a muck spreader….for when the $hyte hits the fan when SWMBO finds out you own it….

 

[Blobber]

If the price is right buy it and then think of a project!

 

[bourbon]

If the price is right buy it and then think of a project!

I've got loads of stuff like that

 

[jerrytug]

That equates to 31 1/2" Dia x 35 1/2" pitch. That is a seriously big prop, Its the sort of thing a steam engine might swing. way too good to stick a lightbulb on.

I thought diameter was normally greater than pitch unless it's a fast/planing boat? It sounds unusual to say the least, and I'm wondering what vessel it was meant for.
Stainless is also unusual as most are obviously bronze.
Very curious

 

[Maker]

Stainless is also unusual as most are obviously bronze.

Isn't stainless usually for fresh water and bronze for seawater?

 

[Brad93]

Isn't stainless usually for fresh water and bronze for seawater?

Exactly that. Stainless isn't the best in sea water. Hence why the 50 year service pipework on naval ships and subs is Monel, CuproNickel or CuNiFe.

 

[hotponyshoes]

I'll have a proper look at the numbers and see if I can work out what it's for.
One of you rich boys might have a boat to suit it...

Or I might be wrong and it might be for some massive industrial stirring machine or something?