Post your biggest RC blunders, mishaps, and mistakes

[simplechamp]

Like the title says post your biggest RC screw-ups. It can be a funny story, advice to help other members avoid the same mistake, or other words of wisdom.

My biggest RC blunder thus far was buying the Losi Mini and Micro vehicles when I was first starting out. They were an impulse buy because they seemed inexpensive and there was a certain cool factor of the small vehicles. Little did I know I had a rude awakening ahead!

Sure the RTR vehicle was cheap, but I dropped a HUGE amount of cash on hop-ups, better electronics, etc. The fun factor wore off in about a month, and I realized how limited the vehicles were. Almost immediately I needed something bigger that could actually bash off-road. The resale value of the two vehicles was far less than a 1/10th or 1/8th scale vehicle, and I threw a bunch of cash down the drain.

Now I have full-size RCs and I wish I would have done that from the very start. Could have saved a lot of time and money. Live and learn!

Driving without a brake

My dad and me went to a parking lot with my Brushless LST which has mech brakes. First I drove a round in the parking lot (I didn't use the brake) Then I let my Dad drive, he was trying to do cool by going 50% speed towards me and then brake so it'll make a stoppie in front of my feet. Well, because some screw got loose from the servo it didn't brake at all! I had to jump to the side, I was a bit scared once the LST passed me. I thought wtf is my dad doing that idiot... (That thing weights 7 kilo btw...)

Anyway, nothing happened except I had to tighten the screw on the servo again

[eovnu87435ds]

i got one. 2 people, 8 cars, 6 brushless, 7 escs. All the escs are dead. and the non-rebuildible brushed motors are dead in the brushed.

Another one is when I realized my MMM was on brushed mode with a brushless motor. things got hot really fast. nothing dead, just hot. That never happened again. The next would be when the bottom black casing from my MM fell to the floor. it got stepped on.

One time at our track, there was a bunch of potholes and stuff from the ground being incredibly dry, and the monster trucks eating it up, and some people tearing up the track with a quad. I was racing my frankenrustler. 3s, with the old old stampede tires with no foams, the thing spun out everywhere. everybody elses truck blew up that race. it was me and one other person. while trying to maintain decent speed, I hit a wet patch on the ground, just before the double. the rustler launched through the air, and broke an a arm on the landing. the last survivor just did donuts and practiced the triple, and then finished the race with 2 laps. and won.

[maxair45]

I got a good one:
I was at the state stadium truck chamiponchip at a local track. Every sponsor for the event was there, and also hooters. Well I was trying to make a name for myself so I got my xxxt all preped. The race is about to start, I run onto the drivers stand, and tell my buddy to turn it on and set it on the track. I was running a castle esc so I took a second to arm and then I went tohit the gas and it took off. Flew right into the wall and I busted a front pivot block before the race even started. Turns out my novak switch was on one channel and my rx was on another(had to do some switching around as most of the channels were taken with all the people there).Lets just say it was embarrasing to say the least to walk down the drivers stand infront of everyone and pick up the pieces of my broken car.

[simplechamp]

Originally Posted by maxair45

Every sponsor was there, and also hooters

Thanks for the laugh, I needed that

[Bondonutz]

A good friend of mine,who is a very experienced RC'er was installing his M.M.M. in his
LST2 conversion and soldered his Deans plug on backwards. He didn't notice it.
ZZZZZZZZT ! cooked the ESC and a Loner 4s Lipo of mine . DOH !
Castle replaced it for $70.00. Leason learned. No matter how experienced you are, Sh*t Happens

[brushlessboy16]

lets go down the line...

The biggest one was Me blowing up a 3s zippy lipo. it slid into the spur gear on my truggy and got munched...






then there was the time i put a drill bit through my hand




Then there was the time I let Eovnu87435ds's GF drive my truggy- and she floored it in reverse and hit my shins..

Then there was another time where I was running my slash (mm 5700/3s) and the radio glitched and it went WOT into a mailbox where it stayed WOT roasting a set of bow ties while i ran toward it.

Got to love the drill bit to the hands/fingers. Thats always fun. Done that quiet a few times. lol

I never got a RC against my legg or something, but does it really hurt that hard?

Once I also saw a RC car which crashed into a shin on youtube. I think it was a Rustler doing speedruns or something. I can't find it anymore... Does somebody know which vid I mean?

[brushlessboy16]

Originally Posted by Byte

I never got a RC against my legg or something, but does it really hurt that hard?

Once I also saw a RC car which crashed into a shin on youtube. I think it was a Rustler doing speedruns or something. I can't find it anymore... Does somebody know which vid I mean?

11lbs at 25 mph... hitting with a sharp wing.. do the math.

[BL_RV0]

My biggest mistake:
Buying nitros.

Some others:
Was filming a video of my rustler with a sw/5700 combo on 2s, . My friend was driving and he had his idiot little brother with him, I think he was 11 at the time. I was filming. Well, this was in a parking lot and there was a 4' ramp leading to a small upper parking lot, which if you hit the ramp at a good enough speed, you can fly a long 60 feet to the other side of the lot, the truck being ~4ft off the ground. Without me knowing (I was on the back side of the lot, where your car can fly to, at full throttle.) I was taking a pee, but that's not important. Anywho... he floors the rusty up the ramp and I was looking away, it takes flight, and flies 60 feet into the back of my neck. I got knocked out cold and woke up in my friends house, on his couch with my destroyed rustler sitting next to me, 3 hours later...

Driving my truggy with a 75mhz radio, glitched, and floored into me at 50mph, 12lb truck don't feel too good on your ankle!

February socal bash. Tuclai (member here) (I think?) was driving his baja 5t off a jump, and it hit me in the calf at 30mph.

Making a servo actuated on switch for my MMM, but forgetting that you can't actuate the servo if there's no power going to it...

Trying to make an e-savage durable.

Picking up a white-hot welding rod.

[brushlessboy16]

Oh I got another one.

Thinking my revo diffs would hold up to my 2200.... :)

[What's_nitro?]

I guess my worst accident/mistake was sliding into a roadside power transformer with my Rustler and snapping it in two. I was going 40+, still accelerating, and hit a patch of sand on the street. *revv* *spin* *CRASH* That's when I built the Al chassis...

[maxair45]

Originally Posted by simplechamp

Thanks for the laugh, I needed that

I need to clarify sponsor for the event not me
Fixed

[trev3813]

Ben can vouch for me, every rc i've owned but my revo, has launched off my roof! Its my way or durability testing,