Oof, I can imagine the pain! But shouldn't the plane and controller be off, and the plane unplugged from the battery? Or were you testing out a servo or something? Well, I guess you've learned the lesson now, we all learn stuff the hard way sometimes! When I work on my 2 cars, I have the car off and disconnected from the batt. I've heard that when wrenching on larger scale rigs, espeacially if you're replacing a motor or ESC (or both) or something like that, it's a good idea to take off the wheels! I use my own homemade car stands, and take precautions, so that doesn't happen. Ok, fine, a 1.5 years ago, when I was replacing all the electrics except the brushed motor in my Wltoys 144001 (long story about that electric swap), I was doing it on the dining table, I didn't have a car stand then, and I was a total noob, as in, couldn't calibrate the ESC (turns out you just needed to plug it in, wait 3 seconds for the calibration beep, and done lol!)! I was trying to get everything set up, and made some mistakes, which had the car rev at full power. Luckily I had the sense to put the buggy on the Hobbywing ESC box! I only have surface RCs, no arial ones, except for a cheap, mini Holystone drone that I rarely use! You can't really wrench on it though.Never bump the throttle with your elbow when you are working on your rc plane in the living room, fortunately I was hanging on to it at the time, unfortunately the prop whacked my shin a few good ones before I could shut it off. Mrs. Doom just asked "Do I want to know?"It did smart a bit, and some blood and tissue, fortunately not a lot of meat on your shin.
* Pro Tip - take the prop off when working on your plane indoors.
Mama mia! That's...horrific! I don't like pictures of body carnage either!I've seen some horrific pictures of prop damage to people's arms. I can view images like that and not be too bad. But some of the images I saw with internal parts of someone's arm hanging out of the gaping wounds just shouldn't be on the web. So when I was into drones, I never once worked on them with the props on. Heck, I was scared just plugging the batteries in. It's even worse than sticking your hand in a table saw.
I did however have deep scars on my arm for many years from the spikes on the tires of my first RC buggy
I believe I know what happened in that incident, I think you shared the full details before! Thanks to that story, I'm now more cautious about those spinning tires! I usually carry my cars by the rear shock tower, wing, or rear bumper, whichever is one the rig that I'm holding. The thottle can get bumped by stuff in transportation, or as you're setting it down, so always have at least the car turned off!
Oh, cool! So you basically adhere and build up with the string and hot melt an extension/hand hold on the back of the deans connector? Some deans have little ridges on the connector for more grip. The dual post is fine, you can make it into a single post by editing the post, then just highlight and delete the second "quote" of my post, making it into a single reply. Deans are a very popular choice in medium to small scale RCs!
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