{"id":673,"date":"2016-12-25T12:29:11","date_gmt":"2016-12-25T12:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=673"},"modified":"2022-07-01T05:51:19","modified_gmt":"2022-07-01T05:51:19","slug":"free-tech-tips-propeller-shape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/?p=673","title":{"rendered":"Free Tech Tips &#8211; propeller shape, material and direction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A good propeller is one that has properly shaped blades. A small but properly shaped propeller can already be very effective. A good and large one that is properly shaped can be several times more powerful, at the expense of load and heat.<\/p>\n<p>If you change the propeller to one that has the same size and with a correct shape, you will observe an instant and visible speed improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Metal propellers tend to be more solid. Some plastic propellers will flex or even deform underwater when the motor is too strong.<\/p>\n<p>Normally, when looking from the back, the propeller (on a single prop system) should spin counterclockwise (a left prop) while pushing the boat forward.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20220701_113730.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3966\" src=\"http:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20220701_113730.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"676\" height=\"643\" srcset=\"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20220701_113730.jpg 676w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20220701_113730-300x285.jpg 300w, https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/IMG_20220701_113730-480x457.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A good propeller is one that has properly shaped blades. A small but properly shaped propeller can already be very&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3166,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[126,85],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-tech-tip-boats","category-free-tech-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=673"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3968,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673\/revisions\/3968"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rcpress.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}