screw ups

[Plaidfish]

I tore down a buggy center diff and put the body back on it...left it on the bench for a few weeks and told someone I had a buggy RTR for sale...brought it out and tried starting it quickly in front of him and instantly realized what I forgot...I took the body off and he started laughing and sayinng I must have parked it in his neighborhood and it got stripped.....

went to the track and started up my buggy right after putting in slothy's P5 and forgot to hook up the throttle linkage and it seemed to have response for a second cause the ball cup was just touching the carb horn...set it down and off she went full tilt into a fence and rode about about 3 ft right up it tearing the green screen down and tangling itself up.......

went bashing at a construction site and decided to jump my truck over a mountain of dirt.....miscalculated placement of the jump and piledriver'd right into the face of the cliff

chased friends dog w/ a TC3 and thought it was funny until he grew some nuts and tore it up......

those are the ones sticking in my head now.....

 

[kx250ryder]

When I first got my 9.5 (first nitro, first r/c in a decade) I made many:

Wired up a servo backwards and smoked it.

Was so excited to drive, I stuffed my receiver and battery pack into the battery box without fastnening it closed, lead to runaway which crashed through neighbors fence.

Forgot to zip tie my air filter on, which came off under the body, and didn't notice till the engine ground to a halt.

Never loctited any screws on my car (actually still haven't) and regularly lose a front steering rod screw, leading to some romping in the deep stuff around our track unexpectedly.

Bought a new servo, because my old one seemed like it was glitching, low receiver pack voltage was the culprit.

No screw under 2.5mm is safe from me.

 

[Greyhound]

This is a good thread. It's not only for laugh, but you can learn a thing or two out of this. Well, things of what not to do. I've done couple of mistakes in this thread already and hope not to get to experience of some that are here. very good!

 

[Rook]

tried starting my savage using an electric drill...took me 2 hours and my father telling me "try the drill counterclockwise" to realize i had it spinning the wrong way.

hitting a patch of gravel and ahving my savage flip sideways into a curb and break my gas tank

 

[Monkey Wrench]

This is hilarious! Here's to adding insult to injury:

1. First R/C truck-HPI RS4 MT: Manual? I don't need no stinkin' manual! Took that sucker out of the box, threw some batteries into the radios, filled it up with airplane fuel and off I went! Engine made it about two hours before I smoked it!

2. First R/C airplane-Tiger Trainer: Did you know there's a certain way to put a prop on? Me neither! Thought it was odd a plane could go backwards!

3. Ever try to rewind a pull starter spring? Ever ask yourself how many folks now have a glass eye for trying it as well?

4. You know, I would've never thought a green scratch pad would leave scratch marks on a Lexan body when you're cleaning it. Go figure!

5. Why is it you never realize you've glued your tires on backwards until you're about to mount them on your rig?

Hope these provided a laugh!

 

[nitrolight]

First time at a track ( 1 hour drive from my home ) I realized I forgot my controller... went back home, picked up the controller and back to the track, the glow-plug was bad, had no extra plugs, no one else at the track, went back home, picked up a few plugs and back to the track determined to get some laps in... got the car started, went out on the track, 2nd lap I wrecked and broke front suspension arm and turnbuckle, had no extra parts and that was my day... 6 hours of driving in LA traffic vs 1 min of track time... The words coming out of my mouth on that last drive home... man o man...
I now take everything with me to the track !

 

[Plaidfish]

lol...I pack my bench up almost....sucks being in mecca and not having your little beanie......

 

[Ryan with savage]

I had the "B" final of my life, I was driving like a dream, almost faultless and was comfortably in the lead, infact I came in for fuel near the end "just to make sure", I was IN THE ZONE....back markers were no problem.......my pitman couldn't believe how well I was doing, 5 mins went, 10 mins went, 15 mins went, 20 mins and end of the race.....toured back in, strolled joyously down to the pitbox and calmly turned everything off and began to mentally prepare for my 1st ever "A" final.....only to be met by stoney glares from my pitman and smirks from all round....apparently you need a transponder to count laps......

 

[Plaidfish]

THAT SUCKS...I think you win the big boob prize of the thread.....

 

[Ryan with savage]

Yup and what made it worse was that there was no-one to blame but myself.

Bought a personal one shortly afterwards......

 

[MustangMan]

I posted in this thread a year ago with my screwup, and it just goes to show that even if you read someone else's screwup it doesn't mean you won't do it.

Case in point. Brought the Savage to work to run in the construction site next door. On my lunch hour in front of friends (who wanted to see it run) I can't get the damn thing started.

Then it dawns on my 15 minutes into trying to start it I had a rubber plug on the stinger so I wouldn't get oil in my car. Duh! I read it HERE that someone else did the same thing and I STILL did it!

 

[1500valk]

see? I am not the only person who plugs his stinger! floods the heck out of it, doesn't it?

 

[vbgagnon]

Comming back to a forum that you were banned from for being an ass and th inking you were going to be accepted. Not me, but relivant to the screw ups thread.

 

[bustedgears]

well, good ole-blue thunder in the winsheild washer container...

windsheild washer fluid for fuel.

lack of knowledge of backward threads (savage)

running without a body.... carb body broken.

Forgot to tighten engine mount screws.... multiple spur gears toast.

Rebuilding the maxx, not one, but BOTH diffs in backwards.

Rebuilding the diffs, and forgetting to lube the spider gears.

running no airfilter...... bad mistake on sand

Buying a t-maxx

Driving the t-maxx

fully upgrading the t-maxx

tried to pull a sleeve with a flatblade screwdriver.

that's about all i can think of right now.

 

[Remy]

Car is on starter box. Car wont start. Changed the plug . Car wont start. Changed the igniter. car wont start. Droped some fuel in the carb. car would start then die right away. Finally I realized you can't start a car with no fuel lines :shrug: Oh it gets better.

Put the lines on. Car wont start. I think to myself wtf is wrong now. After pissing and moaning for 30 more min I realized the lines were on backwards

I guess everyone goes threw the Noooob stage.

 

[HeartBreak]

Drove 70 miles to a race track, raced, had a great time... Unpacked my car for the evening, realised something was missing... my transmitter! (an M8 in a trinity transmitter bag) After sprinting out to the car (jumping kids, cats, and dogs), I found it, sitting on the black tool bag that I keep in the trunk for roadside repairs...

I've since changed to a 'normal' toolbox for my emergency tools.

 

[Rex2342]

The first time I put T-maxx diffs back in I put them in up side down and the truck drove backward.Also one time I was checking a tank for pressure by plugging the fitting with my finger and blowing in the other end. I wasn't smart enough to drain the fuel and when I took my finger off I got an eye full of nitro! Not fun!!

 

[1500valk]

Ok, this one is brand new, happened today. I was running my Savage 4.6 in the street. I noticed a huge drop in power, so I checked the temp, which seemed low (210), so I leaned it out a bit. Performance didn't pick up at all, it was almost like it wasn't getting full throttle. Well, that's because it wasn't. My Venom failsafe temperature monitor was reading an overheat and cutting power back on the engine. Just like it was supposed to. I had the darn thing set at too low of a cutoff. This took me almost an entire tank of fuel to figure out! duh.

 

[olds97_lss]

At least you know it works!

 

[Monkey Wrench]

Just happened this past weekend.

Just about finished rebuilding my father's older Kyosho Baja Beetle. Have the front and rear ends completed, the engine is rebuilt so I decide to tackle the tranny. Take that sucker apart to clean it and inspect it. Didn't put much thought into the particular order the gears and what not are in because, hell, I've GOT the damn manual, right? Keep in mind this is a QRC tranny, so I've personally got nothing to reference other than the manual.


Problem is, stinkin' manual doesn't have an exploded view of the tranny nor an assembly section because, in the original kit, the tranny came preassembled! :whack: Now I'm stuck because I have no reference and because my dumbass was positive there was, at the very least, an exploded view of this thing, I've got to hope Kyosho can dig a manual up on this tranny! :loser: