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One Propeller How to make a homemade boat propeller? I need to make a motor powered boat for my physics class and I need a nice working propeller. The boat is probably the size of a shampoo bottl...


One Propeller

One Propeller
How to make a homemade boat propeller?

I need to make a motor powered boat for my physics class and I need a nice working propeller. The boat is probably the size of a shampoo bottle. I need to make a propeller but I don't know what I should make it out of or how to. Hopefully anyone has advice on how to make one out of a soda can? Thanks in advance.

If it's simply for a project and doesn't have to be the most efficient thing in the world, here goes.

Get yourself a pair of leather work gloves, a soda can, and a pair of tin snips/metal shears.

Cut out bottom of can making sure to try and keep it as round as possible.
Punch a small hole in the middle (shaft)
Make three cuts equidistant from one another from outside edge to 3/4 of the way towards center.
Gently bend/feather one edge of each of your "blades" (reference a real prop for an idea, if you aren't familiar with the shape of an actual prop)...make sure you bend each of the three blades on the corresponding side!!

Now you have to figure out what your "drive system" is and how it will work...you really didn't provide that info.

The prop will not be the most efficient thing in the world but it will move the "boat"...



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