proctology as many boaters like to refer
to it is one of the least understood and
most important considerations on our
votes to get peak performance often we
simply accept the problem delivery
without consideration and scratch our
heads and wonder as to why our boats are
slow out of the hole or lack top-end
speed my recent visit with dr. soulless
lynn and rick nor guard allowed me to
clear up some of house oldest props are
dealing with problems we all experience
with props
captain Rob Smith of boat asked calm I'm
here with solace Lynn and Rick nor guard
from solace props we're gonna learn a
little bit about the syllabus props
today and why they make a difference
thank you for coming here solace thank
you Rick thank you sir now one of the
interesting things that rick has told me
is the way they build their propellers
now with the aluminum propellers making
a big difference is using squeezed
casting in which case they're casting
the prop from underneath it's going in
vertically under high speed and high
pressure and what that does is it helps
eliminate a lot of the imperfections
that might be in there you don't see
them but they're there the little air
bubbles and that's going to affect the
overall performance of the propeller and
the endurance of the propeller even the
paint process for Sol loss is different
with four coats of protection against
corrosion a base coat of aluminum
protectant is covered with a primer next
a baked surface paint is applied
finally a top coat of baked surface
paint is applied which you see on the
finished product all this is proven that
after 500 hours of salt spray testing
the soleus aluminum prop is still in
great shape as yours should be this new
system is really gonna revolutionize the
way these props are handled with the
metals in there now the metals are soft
enough that they can take some
compression but then the rubber itself
actually eliminates that problem with
them binding as well as not filling the
entire center hub so that's where that
vibration comes from this revolutionary
method of dealing with the vibrations we
feel is formed by rubber bushings made
with strong and durable rubber compound
that are simple to insert and maintain
excellent gripping forces preventing
propeller slip flat sections of Roberts
Center hub meet neatly with the flat
surfaces on the inner mount
as the hub locking nut is tightened onto
the bushing it squeezes tightly to the
prop helping eliminate the vibrations
this is going to fit the stern drives in
the large v6 outboards and then we're
next series will come out will fit the v
fours and the 4 cylinder 75 up to the
135 horsepower range and will work down
as I mentioned earlier you probably
already know solace they make propellers
for many of the OEMs including Honda
Mercury BRP Yamaha Volvo Suzuki and many
others solace is also one of the leading
builders of impellers for jet drive and
direct drive engines from plastic to
aluminum and stainless steel three blade
four blade and impellers solace has led
the world in technology and advancement
of propeller engineering a Rick it looks
like we've got a lot of interesting new
material coming along that's going to
add performance and going to add
durability to the line there's gonna be
a lot of other things coming down but
this one I'm really looking forward to
seeing on the boats out there appreciate
you coming in and appreciate souls
coming by and talking with us as well
thank you very much thank you