Harold Bascom
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PPE: Personal Protection Equipment. A very topical concern today as the Coronavirus rages. But let's relate the concept of PPE to the fifth-scale rc vehicles that we drive.
In my most recent post, a guy laments that after his company sold a quarter-scale rc race car to a client (after including a printed caution that an rc vehicle of its size ought only be driven on a dedicated 1/4 scale rc racetrack), the client ran it in a parking lot and subsequently broke his ankle after it ran into him. Ouch! Sadly, the man sued the rc company and effectively destroyed it. (See my post "Shouldn't There Be Rc Vehicles Insurance?".)
So, how do we protect our ankles from being smashed into and broken? I've considered buying a special pair of reinforced long boots, and the inspiration hit me after my Redcat Rampage XR slammed into my ankle and caused me to wonder if it was fractured. I also remember the infancy of my fifth-scale gasser days when more than once I burned myself on hot exhaust pipes, and thereafter, started wearing protective gloves. (I even bought myself a little fire extinguisher for the garage space I tinker in. Gasoline, remember?)
So, guys (gals), as far as PPE go, let's speak of how we can go about protecting ourselves and others in our hobby.
PEACE!
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