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What RC mishaps embarrassed you?


Me:


Jumped RC into myself off of ramp (on video).


full throttle brushless 1/8 runaway all over basement hobby room through trash can, burned (literally) rubber on several walls and carpet, burnt (again literally) 12" of my arm with rubber, the rubber was in the scab for 4 days. Everyone asked what it was. Nice dark red scabe for 3 weeks. scab pieces in the bed some mornings.


Shorted a brushed motor out by pressing caps to the can with my hand. The cap legs got red they were so hot! Had the shape of the caps legs burned into my hand!


grabbed the hot part of 60 watt soldering iron, and squeezed it.


shot shock fuid into eye (and on ceiling) by looking into shock and pushing shaft up


blew out nitro fuel lines but forgot to pop the tank lid so it pressurized and back flushed a mouth of nitro. It burns and for like ten minutes.


Standing on dirt piles while watching car in horizon to see further, taking a few steps and falling down the dirt pile. I did this several times over the years.


Listening to see if the super glue had a air hole in it.... 1/2 an inch from my ear when yep it did have a hole and shot into my ear. Some super glues get warm when they cure.....
 
Dodginbulls and SLHawkins witnessed my most embarassing RC moment firsthand....long story short, a runaway right next to a river bank that was my fault :o :o:o
 
I can't help but laugh as the mental pictures of these things happening is halarious!


Thanks for sharing these.


Two nights ago, I slammed my Rampage into a curb dead on. The curb was masked by fresh snow, didn't know it was there ;)

hamster huey said:
What RC mishaps embarrassed you?
Me:


Jumped RC into myself off of ramp (on video).


full throttle brushless 1/8 runaway all over basement hobby room through trash can, burned (literally) rubber on several walls and carpet, burnt (again literally) 12" of my arm with rubber, the rubber was in the scab for 4 days. Everyone asked what it was. Nice dark red scabe for 3 weeks. scab pieces in the bed some mornings.


Shorted a brushed motor out by pressing caps to the can with my hand. The cap legs got red they were so hot! Had the shape of the caps legs burned into my hand!


grabbed the hot part of 60 watt soldering iron, and squeezed it.


shot shock fuid into eye (and on ceiling) by looking into shock and pushing shaft up


blew out nitro fuel lines but forgot to pop the tank lid so it pressurized and back flushed a mouth of nitro. It burns and for like ten minutes.


Standing on dirt piles while watching car in horizon to see further, taking a few steps and falling down the dirt pile. I did this several times over the years.


Listening to see if the super glue had a air hole in it.... 1/2 an inch from my ear when yep it did have a hole and shot into my ear. Some super glues get warm when they cure.....
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Althought I know have had other experiences... this one will be a memory for long time (and it happened @ 20 years ago).


I had a brand new AYK Buffalo and I was driving it street in the front of the house with my younger sister beside me. I thought I would show off my driving skills, so I was doing donuts, 180s spins, etc. I though I would try and scare my sister standing right beside me, so I floored it coming right back at us/her. When I thought it was close enough, I put it in full reverse. It spun 180 and kept coming full speed in reverse. I panicked and did not let go of the full reverse. My sister jumps out of the way, the car goes past as I am watching it and... it disappears down the sewer that was right behind us! Just so happens, at that very moment with a face of terror... my parents happened to be looking out the dining room window.


It broke a few parts, we were able to lift the manhole cover and climb down and find it in mess of mud. My sister and my father still remind me of that experience anytime RC comes up!


Sorry for the long story, its funnier in my head.


BT
 
LMAO!!! Oh what a picture that paints! Thanks for sharing!

BTXpress said:
Althought I know have had other experiences... this one will be a memory for long time (and it happened @ 20 years ago).
I had a brand new AYK Buffalo and I was driving it street in the front of the house with my younger sister beside me. I thought I would show off my driving skills, so I was doing donuts, 180s spins, etc. I though I would try and scare my sister standing right beside me, so I floored it coming right back at us/her. When I thought it was close enough, I put it in full reverse. It spun 180 and kept coming full speed in reverse. I panicked and did not let go of the full reverse. My sister jumps out of the way, the car goes past as I am watching it and... it disappears down the sewer that was right behind us! Just so happens, at that very moment with a face of terror... my parents happened to be looking out the dining room window.


It broke a few parts, we were able to lift the manhole cover and climb down and find it in mess of mud. My sister and my father still remind me of that experience anytime RC comes up!


Sorry for the long story, its funnier in my head.


BT
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"Don't worry Darin, everyone here is on 2.4""


"What do you mean it just took off?"


Last guy to show up at the bash -- "Sorry, did you ask what channel I was on? I'm on FM. Not sure what 2.4 meant."
 
BTXpress thats a good one! Ive done that too. I was lucky though and able to easily reach mine. Ive also lost control several times over the years at full throttle catching the lips and edges of the opening which mostly breaks arms and chassis stuff. My friend lost his one week old Erevo 1/16 vxl down a 8ft sewer. None of us could reach it. He says he put a loop in the antenna at the top for something just like this. After about 10 minutes of trying he walks back to his car to get his wife to go home and get a coat hanger and guess what Mr. lucky finds in the parking lot? A coat hanger!!!!!!


One time after a few beers I wanted to see if I could do full throttle back and forth down the side walk at dusk on my 3s high speed geared brushelss rustler. Went down to the end of the street, lined up on the sidewalk, started picking up speed, faster around the curve, faster trying to stay on the sidewalk, faster, 1/2 thrrottle, 3/4 throttle, blasted past my drive way, getting excited.......SLAM!!!! Car's DEAD! Neighbor left their 5ft tall heavy trash cart out on the sidewalk 2 houses down! It was loud. And the cart wobbled back and forth. The rustler hit so hard the battery bars seperated!


Any one else every take a buggy to the track the night after having a few beers, and refilling the diff oils front and rear only to find out the one of the diffs is upside down? So when given the gas the front diff tries to go forward and the rear diff tries to go backward? Ive done that twice! Beer was consumed in both instances.....
 
RampageHopUps said:
"Don't worry Darin, everyone here is on 2.4""
"What do you mean it just took off?"


Last guy to show up at the bash -- "Sorry, did you ask what channel I was on? I'm on FM. Not sure what 2.4 meant."
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This is the stuff we can tell our kids and they wont understand!
 
ok I remember one. I had just replaced my headkit. we were going to just hit an industrial area to go do some tuning... my bud stops by and asks "have you fired it up yet?" I say no, come on, I've been building these things for years. it will run... so we pack up and drive out... dam can't get it started... what? I put the piston in backwards?


now I take 3 rc's when I go play
 
Well these are awesome stories.


I share a few of these with ya guys.


One I just finished breaking in my revo 3.3 and it had cooled, just refilled and fired it up. I was running in a construction site and have some sweet jumps. So i climb this dirt pile so I can see them all, lost my footing feel on my arse into a concrete wash out is what the dang sign said I had not seen. I had my temp gun, starter, cell phone and remote on me and they all got wet. My revo took off like it was on crack, even with failsafe, and slammed into the side of a bucket on a back hoe at roughly 40-45 mph.... I was so mad, then i noticed that the guys working the site where actually there just around this building and well they heard the truck hit and came out and saw me and my truck and laughed.....alot..... felt like a dummy


just last yr i had another embarrasing moment....Me and a friend both bought 4x4 slash's with venom's 5400 lipo. But lhs only had 2 in same body, so we matched. Also when we bought them the lhs had set out ramps and a small track, so we charge the batterys at the pit table they had there. All brand new gear, trucks and lipos. Set them down run a cpl laps and start jumping a lil. Mind you there are about 10 other sc trucks and 12 or more other 10th scale trucks running. So we are almost at the end of the fun run thing on full batterys and there is a final race to win a bl bandit i think it was with 10$ entry. So buy now more slashes have showed up. 2 more with same body (laugh now but I couldnt make this up) So race starts its alarge oval with 2 jumps on each straight away . so im doing alright with the 20-25 other trucks from nitropedes tosavages, but mostly slash's 2 and 4wd. So its 10 laps i believe and around the 5th or 6th my truck stops responding. Nothing im asking the turnmarshalls to bring it to me and seems fine. I go back and try to catch up and does it again. Well out the corner my eye i saw a slash crossing a highway that leads to the lhs 4 lanes. Im yelling for everyone to see that someones truck is about to be crunched because that road is very busy. So everyone just stops, everyone. The gal on the mic points out whats happeing,well at the same time this truck is cruizingacross all 4 lanes about 15 moh maybe a lil more, just a cral for them. Everyones checking there radios, and cars. Meanwhile thisslashhad survived all 4 lanesonly to drive off into a creek which was about 3 ft deep. Nobody is running for this thing at all so I do, being nice, its afellow rc'rs truck, don't matter who's. So im ddging traffic, jump in the creek,its summer, now this fulltrhottle floating sorta and i grab it dissconnect the battery and try shake the water out best i could. I get back to the driversstand and its discovered that the truck was mine. I somehow during the race lost eye contact with mine and mistook it for the other 3 that looked exactly the same. On everyone got a huge laugh , and it always comes up when I go to the lhs. So the slash was perfectly fine. We restated the race but this time my truck was plastered with our lhs stickers, which at that time where pink for supporting breast cancer. I never felt so embarassed.


Im sure more to come and im sure more crap has happened but i sufffer from a brain injury and forget long term. Only reaso i recall that one is I have the body nailed to my workshop wall lol
 
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