can you not put anything across the lipo or under the shaft to stop it happening if the pin comes out?

or fit the steel bearing rings i showed in the durango thread..

I think the new 2mm drive shafts that are coming out soon, have something that should stop the pin coming out.

You coud put a penny under the battery strap beneath the shaft or use the outer casing of a bearing

Yeah I'm gonna get some heatshrink, and put some over the cvd just the extra bit of safety now. :)

Thanks Rob. ;)

rob ?

yes ? :woot:

i think he ment gaz

:Dlol

Soz Gaz, I meant Rob on previous page. lol


Thanks to you aswell though Gaz.:wub

:woot:

I didn't take a picture of the main event, by the time i noticed it there a crowd around it and I didn't want to add injury to the wounds by taking a picture.

But I did take a picture of the remains,

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...0/IMG_1375.jpg

I think i am gonna put some heatshrink round my centre driveshafts after seeing that :o

Paul

aouch ... that looks prety bad ?
any chance to see the damage on the car as well ???

I didn't take any of the car but someone did take a picture from a mobile phone of it smoking at the end,the smoke was alot thicker than that!!

http://i677.photobucket.com/albums/v...2010/photo.jpg

When it first went up, I'm sure the smoke could be seen from space!!!!:woot:

Regarding the car.....

All it did was melt through the battery strap. The CVD prop joint was WELL chard. But a quick clean up and a new drive pin from Mr waters, and I was on track for the next round. Oh, and some quick action from Wraggy.:D
I ended up doublesided taping my final Lipo in to the car and then holding it down with cell tape. It was solid and didn't move a millimetre.

As I said before. Any car with plastic or Carbon chassis would have been buggered, the heat was pretty high. I'm glad Durango built a car with an alloy chassis!!:thumbsup:

from from the fist photo it looks like someones walet got burnt out....not the 1st in rc:lol:

Think that could have been my wallet!!!!:woot::confused::(

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