I think my turning machine guy drilled like a cone /fixture particular for this prop before. If you want I can ask him for details
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With a lathe present it must be easy to make a ‘drill-adapter’ for this prop. I suggest to take a piece of aluminium round stock (OD: 30-50mm) and reduce one side to make a short pin that fits the current hole size of the FB prop. In this way the prop is centered in the lathe. With some CA glue you can fix the prop hub to the rest of the aluminium in the chuck. Then drill and ream to 12H7 size to fit the flipsky shaft.
Without a lathe I used a drillpress with drills 10.5, 11, 11.5 and a conical reamer to 12H7. With small steps the prop will remain centric as well
Yes thats the way to do… Really start to like the Fliteboard prop more than the FR now… Anyone got the new Flitebaord2 prop with free wheeling already? Possible to adapt on 65162 shaft?
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Anyone else tested the manta prop? I don’t know if it is worth the effort to make an adapter for drilling this prop, time is money…
@YAHEF
Were you using a fairing/space between the motor body and the prop? If the power consumption is similar to the FR prop, but with more low end grip, then it seems a good choice for a tow boogie.
It does fit both fr and maytech yes
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Used the flipsky hub here (Efoil V3 - STL files for Gong foil and Flipsky motor 12mm - Parts list - Schematics - #121 by SoEFoil) for a perfect fit with just a hairline between the prop and hub. You’ll also need an M8 nut and a prop pin which I cut from a stainless steel nail.
Cheaper than Fliteboard prop with shipping to USA.
Manta: $70 prop + $35 shipping = $105
Fliteboard: $45 prop + $90 shipping = $135
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And… It’s carbon fiber filled injection… manta prop sound and is stiff like metal prop without the corrosion issues of aluminum ones.
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Went all in and finalized my Flitecopy build. Man it was tougher than I thought, suddenly bying it at 5k€ is actually an option. Will couple it with my 16s setup and the Trampa 75/300. Hoping this will take me past the 50kmh limit.
Even if I created this thread and still firmly believe that the flite-prop is the best bang for the buck there is I’m comntemplating to fit the kit with either the 6 or 7" FR for it’s maiden voyage. What do you guys think? Is it a must to use Flite-prop on the flite-copy steup?
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Beautifully done !
bets are opened : my guess : FR -7
Good guess @Alexandre went with FR-7, 120kv flipsky, but only 14s battery today.
The setup is just magical. I thought having the frontwing in plane with propulsion was marketing from Flite, but it does really improve stability. Rig is super stable starting at 30kmh. I’m 105kgs on a 800cm2 front-wing so this is not bad.
Anyways since it’s still 7* waters and there was 50cm waves, I chickened out at 45kmh, but this was far from current or DC limit.
If you get the chance to build a flite replica go for it! There is nothing like it in stability/agility/speed.
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If you dare to ride along FPV 
Had one 40km/h+ fall and it’s starting to hurt…
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wow, heavy wipeout…
but at 30km/h your pulling quite a lot power… I ride with about 1800W at 30km/h with 80kg…on flipsky…and flite prop…so you use about 1000W more on FR 7"?
80kg total weight? Or just the rider?
Big diff upwind/downwind. Not so easy for you to know, but you need to look in both directions. This is absolutely not my most efficient setup. Its a 800sqcm wing for 135kg total weight! But it was a very unique experience compared to gong Veloce, RL, Naish, Unifoil hyper setups that i all ready have.
62Wh/km x 30km/h = 1860w
Yep, I guess you are both right, but the momentary consumption is not fully correct and also I have about 3v @40A. I would say 2,0kW to make it even.
I have the exact same @30kmh when I ride my Unifoil Hyper 190, which is a super efficient foil.
That one I can ride with 22A @24kmh thought.
All about which speed and how fat you are that plays in most 
Secondly how high you ride, with 19mm mast it needs to divide some water, this seems to play bigger role in higher speed…
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