What did you crash today?

Flying Monkey fab

Elite member
I saw my first battery fire today, it was mine. Simple stick after a hard whack in.
 

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Shurik-1960

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In all my models, I make the battery compartment much larger.I glue all the walls of the compartment with a thick layer of material-a soft sponge.Even with vertical crash, my battery and regulator remain intact. My motor frame is glued to the side reinforcements and, upon impact, together with the engine, it shifts deep into the fuselage. https://ibb.co/2sYXzvk Photos after repair https://ibb.co/gtBms7m
 
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MZ250Ben

Member
No, But it did take a week or so and a number of ideas to get it down. It was up there over 40 Feet! :eek:
The final recovery attempt was taking Four 10 foot sections of conduit, connecting them together, and giving it a few pokes. I think I spent more on the conduit than I did on the plane. :LOL:
I did exactly that to get my plane out of a 3 day stint in a tree at the metroparks 20 years ago. I still have that plane. 😝
 

LitterBug

Techno Nut
Moderator
I crashed my PC the other day. Tried upgrading the CPU and got a dud. It would post, enter the bios, and do everything BUT boot any OS. Had the latest bios, yada yada yada, no go. Took it back and got a different model. all is good.
 

Shurik-1960

Well-known member
Last fall, I also had to work on a laptop..For 6 years, the Acer laptop has been working properly... turned off. I took it apart and started looking for faults. Friends give away a bunch of spare parts.As a result, I managed to assemble 2 Acer laptops. I've updated both to the maximum. Defective processors are often sent from China, soul buy them in 2 pieces. It remains to fix a large computer at the cottage: there are more than 100 videos with model flights.
 

Tench745

Master member
I did exactly that to get my plane out of a 3 day stint in a tree at the metroparks 20 years ago. I still have that plane. 😝
I have a set of fiberglass poles from an old tent for these kinds of situations. Of course, I always forgot to bring them with me when I've actually needed them... They live in my car now so I can't forget them anymore.
 

FishbonesAir

Active member
Well, let's see. The motor's toast, the battery's obviously toast, The fuselage is toast. The wing seems to be OK. The ESC is probably OK. I'll have to test it. The servos in this fuselage are probably OK.
A guy in my club, with way, way more experience than me told me awhile back to just replace motors and ESC's in pairs - "when one goes," he said, "you never know what it did to the other, and it's just not worth finding out in the middle of a loop..." I had issues after replacing just one, when he passed on these words of wisdom. Guy flies big, really expensive Heli's and pattern ships so I suspect that there's probably an ugly crash or three somewhere in his past. ;)
 

Mr Man

Elite member
A guy in my club, with way, way more experience than me told me awhile back to just replace motors and ESC's in pairs - "when one goes," he said, "you never know what it did to the other, and it's just not worth finding out in the middle of a loop..." I had issues after replacing just one, when he passed on these words of wisdom. Guy flies big, really expensive Heli's and pattern ships so I suspect that there's probably an ugly crash or three somewhere in his past. ;)
That's some good advice.(y)
 

clolsonus

Well-known member
A guy in my club, with way, way more experience than me told me awhile back to just replace motors and ESC's in pairs - "when one goes," he said, "you never know what it did to the other, and it's just not worth finding out in the middle of a loop..." I had issues after replacing just one, when he passed on these words of wisdom. Guy flies big, really expensive Heli's and pattern ships so I suspect that there's probably an ugly crash or three somewhere in his past. ;)
I would also like to 2nd (or 3rd or 4th) this advice. I know not everyone is in a position to buy new gear any time, but whenever something glitches on me or is in a really hard crash ... I retire and replace it. I've had one off glitches that I hoped would be ok, but came back at the worst time. I've seen someone destroy 3 nice big giant scale models because they weren't willing to accept maybe there was a problem with their radio gear. It comes down to what are you willing to risk, but as projects increase in size and sophistication I quickly toss anything I'm not sure about.
 

MZ250Ben

Member
A guy in my club, with way, way more experience than me told me awhile back to just replace motors and ESC's in pairs - "when one goes," he said, "you never know what it did to the other, and it's just not worth finding out in the middle of a loop..." I had issues after replacing just one, when he passed on these words of wisdom. Guy flies big, really expensive Heli's and pattern ships so I suspect that there's probably an ugly crash or three somewhere in his past. ;)
I recently did a dumb thing while setting up a twin, leaving me with 2 spanking new escs and motors that *maybe* smelled funny now, not sure, my whole world smells of burnt phenolic and solder, so who knows? Of course they weren't going in an aircraft of any size, BUT I decided that my janky HF RC boat could do for a twin airboat conversion. Lemme tell ya, it's awesome, this thing HAULS with twin 2206 on 4s. I bring it along kayaking and it's a blast. And believe it or not, all the allegedly damaged components still work after many runs as a boat, even surviving multiple capsizing events with total immersion. Very impressed about that, and surprised, but frankly, I don't think I've *electrically* destroyed any FT parts. There have been fires, but not electrical ones...:sneaky:
 

Houndpup Rc

Elite member
This doesn't quite fit here, since it wasn't today. I was looking through some old photos and found this gem. When you see it...

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Had that recently! Wish I got a picture, thankfully there were no leaves and there was 20mph+ winds that night so it only stayed up one night, with my brand new out of the box battery too!!!! Seems like it is fine though.
 

Houndpup Rc

Elite member
No, But it did take a week or so and a number of ideas to get it down. It was up there over 40 Feet! :eek:
The final recovery attempt was taking Four 10 foot sections of conduit, connecting them together, and giving it a few pokes. I think I spent more on the conduit than I did on the plane. :LOL:
I did that with my bloody baron that got stuck up in a tree recently too, but was only 20 ft up. I have been having bad luck with trees lately. 😬
 

Houndpup Rc

Elite member
Had a little mishap today. Right after the start the battery decided to exit the aircraft resulting in an immediate loss of control and a pretty hard landing.

Lesson learned, will add battery straps next time.
Had that happen this spring, looks like a bomb! lol I was up really high and it coasted like 500yrds into the neighbors field!!! The most humiliating crash is when you have to go groveling to the neighbors and ask permission to go get your airplane(or what's left of it)!