Hamilton Standard Hydromatic propeller - Australia

[98octane]

Thanks MiTasol. The welch plug in my prop was 6mm and in the centre of the screw thread, as you suggested. I decided to carefully drill it out, which worked perfectly. No damage. I'm cleaning it up anyway, so any debris will be removed.

 

[Michael Hope]

Hi everyone, I did buy the de Havilland prop and am finally getting around to cleaning it up.

I can't work out how to take the dome retaining nut off the dome (brass ring in the attached photos). I've unscrewed every screw I can find, but it still doesn't slide off even with force.

From old drawings of similar Hamilton Standard dome assemblies, it appears there may be ball bearings holding the dome retaining nut to the dome. Is this right?

I found this website useful, but doesn't answer my specific problem! de Havilland Propellers

Does anyone know how I can remove it?

Thanks in advance.

On the Hamilton Standard Propellers which have a welsh plug to seal the a row of loose ball bearings that have to be removed to remove the nut. It appears there is a welsh plug on two of your images. You can either drill it out by using a small diameter drill and then use a punch in the hole to work the welsh plug loose. Do not drill it the size of plug, the drill must be much smaller than the plug size.

Here is the text from H/S manual 140D in how to remove the nut:

The smaller steel dome shell for the 22D30 propeller is retained by wires and has no ball bearings to hold the nut to the dome shell.

 

[98octane]

On the Hamilton Standard Propellers which have a welsh plug to seal the a row of loose ball bearings that have to be removed to remove the nut. It appears there is a welsh plug on two of your images. You can either drill it out by using a small diameter drill and then use a punch in the hole to work the welsh plug loose. Do not drill it the size of plug, the drill must be much smaller than the plug size.

Here is the text from H/S manual 140D in how to remove the nut:
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The smaller steel dome shell for the 22D30 propeller is retained by wires and has no ball bearings to hold the nut to the dome shell.

Thanks Michael. I drilled it out using a smaller diameter drill bit and this worked perfectly. Took a while to get all the ball bearings out, though. Decades old grease in there!