oldengineer said:Is your's an early Phantom, fitted with all right-hand threaded nuts?
...The current versions, have 2 off left-hand threaded motors and 2 off right-hand threaded motors, which logically are always self tightening, rather than the earlier ones, which 2 off, could tend to undo by themselves.
discv said:But that said, the earlier props are keyed/have flats. So provided that the nuts are reasonably tightened and the flats on the prop and shaft are a good fit, I would have thought that they would be unlikely to undo themselves.
But I've been wrong before
oldengineer said:discv said:But that said, the earlier props are keyed/have flats. So provided that the nuts are reasonably tightened and the flats on the prop and shaft are a good fit, I would have thought that they would be unlikely to undo themselves.
But I've been wrong before
...The current ones are also keyed. The keying only stops the props moving (as much) It's the L.H / R.H thread combination that's critical. i.e. the torque of the motor will spin off the nut in a instant (if its not super tight) if its R.H, but needs to be L.H.
discv said:There seems to be 2 types of new prop. One type is as you say. But on the DJI site they show a prop with integrated prop nut with a sculptured spanner to hold the motor casing.
RodVa said:Today I was flying my Phantom and one of the propellers came out. Tnx GOD I't was only a few feets high. I always check them and others things before fly and the nut was tight. This have happend to anybody?
oldengineer said:Is your's an early Phantom, fitted with all right-hand threaded nuts?
...The current versions, have 2 off left-hand threaded motors and 2 off right-hand threaded motors, which logically are always self tightening, rather than the earlier ones, which 2 off, could tend to undo by themselves.
The Editor said:When I unboxed my Phantom from new the very first thing I did was throw away the silver domed prop nuts that came with it - I never flew my Phantom from new with the stock nuts.
Do yourself a favor and get some M6 Nyloc nuts. I bought 20 of them on fleabay for about $5.
You will NEVER have a problem with nuts coming loose again.
The Editor said:RodVa said:Do yourself a favor and get some M6 Nyloc nuts. I bought 20 of them on fleabay for about $5.