Got my Croxton worked Tempest plus 25 back and on the TorqueMaster. Can't wait to run it this weekend!
Got my Croxton worked Tempest plus 25 back and on the TorqueMaster. Can't wait to run it this weekend!
Ron Wells, Apache Junction, AZ
2012 Charger 797 Merc 250 PRO SX
You should see a big improvement
Are you saying Croxton worked on the Torque Master as well as the Tempest? Or just the Tempest?
We need full boat pics...
Mark Croxton just worked over the Tempest + 25. Mark does great work!
Ron Wells, Apache Junction, AZ
2012 Charger 797 Merc 250 PRO SX
So here is the story on this prop. Originally bought it off a guy on BBC about 10 years ago. It was a Borger worked Tempest plus 25. I ran it on my 186 Champ for a couple of years and it worked great. One day I was running across the lake at about 60 MPH and one of the blades just tore almost in two. I didn't hit anything...I was in over 100'of water. Limped back to the ramp on the trolling motor. Took the prop to a local prop shop and they said it was a casting defect and couldn't be fixed. Stuck it in a cabinet in the garage and it sat there until I bought my Charger in December. Touch of Class suggested a Tempest + 25 as the best option for my boat and I pulled the prop out of the cabinet and took a picture of it. Sent the picture to a prop shop in Georgia and they said it couldn't be fixed. Sent the pic to Croxton and he said he could fix it. He did a B&B on t after the repair. It looks awesome now! I'll post a picture of the damaged prop on the original post.
Last edited by rwells; 04-12-2018 at 02:18 PM.
Ron Wells, Apache Junction, AZ
2012 Charger 797 Merc 250 PRO SX
This is the before-Croxton pic of the prop. So here is the story on this prop. Originally bought it off a guy on BBC about 10 years ago. It was a Borger worked Tempest plus 25. I ran it on my 186 Champ for a couple of years and it worked great. One day I was running across the lake at about 60 MPH and one of the blades just tore almost in two. I didn't hit anything...I was in over 100'of water. Limped back to the ramp on the trolling motor. Took the prop to a local prop shop and they said it was a casting defect and couldn't be fixed. Stuck it in a cabinet in the garage and it sat there until I bought my Charger in December. Touch of Class suggested a Tempest + 25 as the best option for my boat and I pulled the prop out of the cabinet and took a picture of it. Sent the picture to a prop shop in Georgia and they said it couldn't be fixed. Sent the pic to Croxton and he said he could fix it. He did a B&B on t after the repair. It looks awesome now! I'll post a picture of the damaged prop on the original post.
Ron Wells, Apache Junction, AZ
2012 Charger 797 Merc 250 PRO SX
Croxton is a engineer in the prop world he can do it!
Mark Croxton is great indeed! Awesome guy to work with!
Last edited by rwells; 04-13-2018 at 01:34 PM.
Ron Wells, Apache Junction, AZ
2012 Charger 797 Merc 250 PRO SX
Rich Boger was supposed to be the man when it came to props, I wish he was still around because he had a pretty nice website/forum.
Rich would only work on virgin props or ones he had worked previously. Wouldn't touch one someone else had worked. He was also rather moody, but a hell of a prop guy.
That picture of the broken prop looks like Superman used his mad vision on it.
I got nothin
I had Rich work a prop for a 19 ft. Charger I once owned. I had a Suzuki 150 EFI on that boat. Most the guys that rode in that boat thought it was a rebadged 200. Boat popped on plane so fast it would set you back in the seat. But it was still a 150 on a 19 ft. Charger, 57-58 mph boat.