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Anyone with a force one hub go from a wood Sensenich wood prop to a carbon p-tip Prince prop. Would this be a straight forward swap or are there complications?

John

Johns wrote:Anyone with a force one hub go from a wood Sensenich wood prop to a carbon p-tip Prince prop. Would this be a straight forward swap or are there complications?

John

I had a prince P tip it went back 3 x for repairs , the 3rd time i was told it cant be repaired and to get a new prop , I ordered a sensenich and it works fine , Good luck if you choose to go to prince

I love my Prince P tip, and have found Lonnie Prince to be a great guy to deal with.

My prop was easy to install, used the hardware supplied with my AeroVee and some AN bolts.

Can't say I have experience with other props or switching them, but I love the propeller I bought.

Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
N1517S

Sonex1517 wrote:I love my Prince P tip, and have found Lonnie Prince to be a great guy to deal with.

My prop was easy to install, used the hardware supplied with my AeroVee and some AN bolts.

Can't say I have experience with other props or switching them, but I love the propeller I bought.

Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
N1517S

wait till it goes bad and you will see how good he is helping !!

SonexEZ wrote:

Sonex1517 wrote:I love my Prince P tip, and have found Lonnie Prince to be a great guy to deal with.

My prop was easy to install, used the hardware supplied with my AeroVee and some AN bolts.

Can't say I have experience with other props or switching them, but I love the propeller I bought.

Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
N1517S

wait till it goes bad and you will see how good he is helping !!

Hmmm. Actually when the first one didn't meet expectations, he replaced it. For free. Even shipped it to me.

I stand by my recommendation. Great guy, great product, fantastic customer service.


Sorry for hijacking the original thread....


Robbie Culver
Sonex 1517
Chicagoland
N1517S

Let's not get off topic here guys. Personal feelings of bitterness doesn't help John.

John, if I were to guess I'd say it's a direct replacement but your best answer would come from Lonnie himself. Give him a call and ask; he's built thousands of props and can answer your question. I'm sure that, even if a small modification would be needed, he could easily accommodate it.

Johns wrote:Anyone with a force one hub go from a wood Sensenich wood prop to a carbon p-tip Prince prop. Would this be a straight forward swap or are there complications?

John

I have a prince P-Tip 54x48 on my 2400cc VW powered Sonex, and I have the Force One Prop hub.
Just tell Lonnie Prince what you have and he'll make it accordingly.

This is my first prop so I have no experience with the Sensenich.
However, my hangar buddies have the Sensenich props on their Sonex's, it looks like it would be just a straight swap apart from the bolts, the Sensenich props appear to be much thicker. The prince prop will require shorter bolts.

Hi all,
Just wanted two throw my 2 cents in to this thread. Thanks Mike F for interceding, although when u referred to John, I think you really wanted to refer to sonexez (guy). John was the original poster. Sonexez we'ved all posted and helped you out on the used sonex you bought, glad to see you're getting things sorted out and flying, the prop you had (Prince) not sure of the history and use behind this prop. But please cut Lonnie Prince some slack. He is a top notch guy. And a great supporter of the sonex airplane community. We had a small problem with our carbon p-tip prop, he sent us a new one the next day, we used the box to send the old one back. Very pleasant and easy to deal with. Sorry you were not pleased but sending the prop back 3 times? At some point he will need to start charging for his time to repair it.
I've never been to crossville, hopefully someday, but doesn't Lonnie come and give a propeller seminar? And donate a new prop as a raffle prize? Gee many others have posted about good experience with Lonnie. Sorry you don't feel the same. We've all had experiences with different aviation sources, usually a civil call to straighten things out works. Only once a civil call resulted in hostility back.
Thanks Mike F. For letting me rant, abit slightly off topic.
WaiexN143NM

My Prince prop developed a fault. Can't think how it happened. Do you think Lonnie would cover warranty?
https://www.dropbox.com/s/t9yyb55xjvsvs1z/20150205_163045.jpg?dl=0
Peter
Sonex 894

Well I wouldn't have called that a fault. Unless you are talking about the prop version of the San Andreas fault.