Faro From Egypt, joined Aug 2007, 1445 posts, RR: 0 Posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 3 days 11 hours ago) and read 2896 times:
I am searching for (a small chunk of) a used helicopter rotor blade or rotor blade glove from which the intention is to hew a set of wedding rings. It’s a long story, but that’s the gist of it for the purpose of this thread.
Can anyone help out on this one? Metal is important, don’t know how much metallic-bladed or -gloved rotors get rubbished these days. Cost is important too, don’t know what scrap value these items may have.
Tdscanuck From Canada, joined Jan 2006, 12709 posts, RR: 80 Reply 1, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 19 hours ago) and read 2767 times:
Quoting Faro (Thread starter): I am searching for (a small chunk of) a used helicopter rotor blade or rotor blade glove from which the intention is to hew a set of wedding rings. It’s a long story, but that’s the gist of it for the purpose of this thread.
Does it have to be a helicopter, or is a propellor blade acceptable?
HaveBlue From United States of America, joined Jan 2004, 2069 posts, RR: 1 Reply 3, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 2 days 5 hours ago) and read 2631 times:
I've got 2' sections of Huey rotor blades, but I'm not parting with em. When they take a D or H model Huey and chop the rotor blade to fit on the smaller B or C model (or take a 205 blade and put it on a 204) they have to lop 2' off of each side, and that's what I got. You would be amazed how heavy it is.
JarheadK5 From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 216 posts, RR: 1 Reply 4, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2581 times:
Interesting idea.
Quoting Faro (Thread starter): Metal is important, don’t know how much metallic-bladed or -gloved rotors get rubbished these days. Cost is important too, don’t know what scrap value these items may have.
Cost depends on the spar material. A titanium-sparred blade will have significant scrap value; even an aluminum-sparred blade will have a decent scrap value.
I'd be pretty surprised if any operator simply threw those sorts of things away. I know when I worked for Carson Helicopters, they kept every S-61 main rotor blade they had ever flown. They probably still have all their old metal blades, even though they've been flying their all-composite blades on all their aircraft for several years now.
2H4 From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8950 posts, RR: 62 Reply 5, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 1 day 22 hours ago) and read 2575 times:
DocLightning From United States of America, joined Nov 2005, 16826 posts, RR: 57 Reply 7, posted (3 years 6 months 3 weeks 12 hours ago) and read 2433 times:
Quoting Faro (Thread starter): I am searching for (a small chunk of) a used helicopter rotor blade or rotor blade glove from which the intention is to hew a set of wedding rings. It’s a long story, but that’s the gist of it for the purpose of this thread.
I can't help you, but it looks like 2H4 did a fantastic job of it.
But that's a beautiful idea, whatever the story behind it is. Are you going to have a stone set in hers? If so, consider sapphire, an allusion to a clear, blue sky, as an alternative to diamond (and often cheaper, too).
Faro From Egypt, joined Aug 2007, 1445 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (3 years 6 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 2377 times:
Quoting DocLightning (Reply 7): But that's a beautiful idea, whatever the story behind it is. Are you going to have a stone set in hers? If so, consider sapphire, an allusion to a clear, blue sky, as an alternative to diamond (and often cheaper, too).
Funny that the idea was actually hers, and she's anything but an aviation-person. Still not set on the stone but we have to figure out how to tranform a chunk of tail rotor into a ring first (machining, melting, etc). The rotor itself is aluminium but the glove attachment should be steelesque. Sapphire is certainly a very pleasing sky blue, will think about it.
For information, the item is 1.95 meters long and 41 cm wide and prolly over 30 kg in weight: in tail rotor terms it's a whopper. The vendor is not sure of the helicopter model but there's a fair chance it was intended for the CH-37 Sikorsky Mojave, the biggest helicopter in the West when it came out in the 50's.
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