This guy...lol

[TINY_MAXX]

Man my neighbors (sp) come out to watch me and my dad when we drive our trucks...They always ask about the truck..

 

[kwong2001]

Originally posted by FastEddy
Next time he comes out while your driving, go over and hand him your controller. maybe you'll gain a gunning partner. It worked for me.

You know, if someone seems interested and i'm driving my onroad, i'll let them drive it, i'll just turn the throttle down to about 1/4 or so. But i'm not gonna let someone who isn't gonna seem interested in it drive it. I've let elementary kids drive my car.

BTW, the guy who yelled at me was well past his prime and there would be no way he'd buy one. He was an old man probably retired some poop.

 

[Error401]

case in point

just saw something sick on TV. Blind date. This almost made me cry. Joe and Naomi went on a date, some guy (don't know the details) had this bigassed 1/5th scale gas buggy who let her drive it. less than a second at full throttle and it hit a building, front wheel broke off and she just laughed. The dude who's car hit the building looked like he was gonna start squirting. Hey dude, here's your crying towel. NOONE drives my stuff unless I know they can drive R/C. It's hard enough to get my r/c buddies to drive my stuff, "no dammit, you're gonna drive my old savage, and you're gonna have fun."

 

[kwong2001]

I'd of turned the throttle down. I've found that ppl can't handle r/c's if they've never driven it. It always gets away from them.

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

Error remind me never to visit VA, should a little bit strange......................

 

[Error401]

It's not like that everywhere in VA, just here in Roanoke. Our biggest attraction is a big neon star on a small mountain in the middle of town. OOOooo, I live in thew "Star City of the South". You can't go anywhere and not be out of sight of either 1) a bank, 2) some sort of medical facility or 3) a retirement community. Most large industry has moved away (AMP, Norfolk Southern RR, Gardner Denver). My city had the chance to become an airline hub, but city council and most of the retirees voted it down and said "we don't want to be another Charllote NC" That'll mess up our tourist thing we have going. Down Sky and Pirata's way (on the coast) it's pretty booming, but here, forget it. I'm moving to NC when I get the chance.

 

[LarryA]

Heah, don't make fun of the "old guys". To a lot of people I'm one of the old guys and I still have fun. I'm not retired and not close yet but my tennage days a WAY behind me :nono:

 

[Error401]

Well, there's cool old people, and then there are cranky old farts. The latter kind permiates my town. If you're old (noone in particular) and on RCNT, you DON'T fall into the second category, you're pretty cool.

 

[HumboldtBlazer]

young at heart

 

[RAMTech-RC]

Hey kwong2001,

The best nitro I own is a Titan Motorcycle. Whenever my E-maxx isn not doing enough to piss off my neighbors, I fire up the Titan, and pretend I'm tuning it. Especially when they have redneck friends over to watch a baseball game in the garage. Nothing better than a overpowered V-twin for noise.

 

[Team 17]

At least I can't complain. All my neighbors want to do is watch and ask questions whenever I run my T-maxx all over their lawns!

 

[RobH]

I'm with the guy on the lawn mower issue. A lawn mower is louder than a nitro rc.

I'm thinking about looking up the laws on noise. We have equipment here at work than can measure that stuff. I'm dead sure a rc nitro is well within the sound laws around here.

 

[Error401]

Good idea, but I've had bad experiences with db metering. I used to fly at a field that was run by some real anal folks. If you brought a new plane/engine to the field, you had to get it metered. 99db was the limit. They used it as a tool to get their way, some folks got metered all the time, others never. They poop when my piped OS Hanno .60 metered 64db (many pissed looks). That's in the past.

My point is, high frequency sounds don't carry as far as low frequency sounds for the same total energy output at the source. That's why all you hear when one of those the loudassed car stereo is bass, no mid or treble. Get in the car and you do. R/C engines are more on the high frequency end than lawn equipment. Now take a look at where the exhaust is pointed on an R/C vehicle and say a lawn mower (or a leaf blower or weed whacker). R/C is about 1 inch to 3 inches from the ground and pointed at a (relatively) sound absorbing surface. Lawn equipment, about 3 to 4 feet in the air and pointed nearly horrizontally (like a megaphone). Granted lawn mufflers have gotten better, but they are still kind of loud.

I say go for it, but meter the R/C from his lawn, and meter his mower from yours and see who is pumping more db's.

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Now there is your lesson in Sound for the day boys and girls!

So go and buy your neighbor a can of 'Shut The Hell Up!' and say Thank You to Error401 !

Nice Post my man! Nice post!

 

[Error401]

Thanks, BTW I prefer the term "STFU".

Also, if you've ever wondered why the lights on radio antenas are red, it's the same reason as my last post.

 

[SilentGTboy]

So your saying because of the color reds wavelength. I thought it was because red don't screw up your night vision, but maybe it doesn't because of the wavelength. Hmm

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Well my new futaba lets you change it from green, orange, purple, blue, yellow and red. Or something like that. Believe it or not, that was one of the coolest options I seen on any radio. Stupid I know, but cool none the less.

I just need to STFU....

 

[Error401]

Originally posted by SilentGTboy
So your saying because of the color reds wavelength. I thought it was because red don't screw up your night vision, but maybe it doesn't because of the wavelength. Hmm

Yes to both. I was refering to the big antennas (couple hundred foot high ones). Blue light gets absorbed by the atmosphere easier than red (uh, bottom of the visible spectrum, unless you have dog eyes and can see infrared). Therefore red can be seen from a farther distance and can be avoided by, say, a full scale airplane.

The nightvision thing is also chemical GT. Blue light stimulates the cones that produce a chemical that makes the rods less effecient and thus screws up the night vision. Red stimulates the rods. That why it doesn't affect NV. (if I got that backwards, tuff, but that's all I got out of biology class.) Dogs see in black and white only, aint that a bitch.

Pardon me while I STFU, cause I had to scroll back to see how this thread started. Sorry about that Kwong.

 

[SilentGTboy]

lol, Thank you

 

[Çh®i§tiªñ]

Lol! Guess me being funny didnt work.

Ill try again later :trashed: