Random part of the day: Propeller

I thought this was the propeller used in the small adventurers planes, so I looked at the alternate ID 2421. But that didn't show anything before 2004. So maybe it was a significantly different mold.
Some further digging on bricklink shows that it was indeed in sets like 2542 and 3039. Brickset just doesn't have any kind of propeller in the inventory for them. Maybe at that point the propeller always came pre-attached. I feel like that was something they did back then.

Anyway, you might say I'm a fan of this piece because it came in some fun little adventurers sets.

It was always amusing seeing this used on planes that were too big for this prop to generate enough thrust to get the plane airborne, such as 7732, which used a different version of the mold.

@Miyakan: I don't ever remember propellers coming pre-attached. Minifigure heads, yes (even when the minifig had air tanks or something else that went around the neck, meaning you'd have to take the head off and then put it right back on), but not propellers.

@tedgarb said:
"People are gonna get really spun up about this one, I fear"

Tri again. I’ve got no blades to sharpen over this one.

I wonder if this would make a good dragonfly set.

Oh dear, I do hope this means the Dragon Fly from the other day hasn’t crashed…

P R O P E L L A H

LORE:

An aircraft propeller, also called an airscrew, converts rotary motion from an engine or other power source into a swirling slipstream which pushes the propeller forwards or backwards. It comprises a rotating power-driven hub, to which are attached several radial airfoil-section blades such that the whole assembly rotates about a longitudinal axis. The blade pitch may be fixed, manually variable to a few set positions, or of the automatically variable "constant-speed" type.

While we’re on the subject, TLG needs to make a 2-bladed version like the old 3480. We need some proper tail rotors for small helicopters!

I'm more of a 3480 propeller guy myself. (Also, how do you paste part number and make it a link? I know how to do it for a set...)

@ra226 said:
"I'm more of a 3480 propeller guy myself. (Also, how do you paste part number and make it a link? I know how to do it for a set...)"

I don't think you can, you just have to paste the ink to the part page
https://brickset.com/parts/design-32125
Couldn't see a part 3480 though?

@ra226:
The quick link only works for set numbers that Brickset recognizes as such. If it’s classified as gear, I don’t think they work. And minifigs, parts, or anything else that use a similar numbering system are excluded, which saves a lot of confusion over how to deal with a number that is both a set and a part.

Not quite as fun as the ones that spin on frictionless Technic pins (a very subjective comparison), but I think fondly of having the original of this style with my 6563.

Propellers are worse than wheels.

Blacktron use wheels. Blacktron does not use propellers. Therefore, propellers are worse than wheels.