Wraggy, you're my hero!! :)
 

Well, after an eventful day at the ME regional today I have to thank Paul Wragg.

As my Durango parted company with its rear prop pin half way down the straight on the warm up lap, it cut into the LiPo and produced possibly the biggest smoke cloud I've seen from an RC car!! (very spectacular).
I pulled it to the side so something could be done with it only to hear people saying "I'm not touching that!!".

As I ran from the rostrum I saw a figure running through the smoke towards my car. Mr wragg was the only one brave enough (? lol) to plunge his hands into the depth of the smoke and unplug the LiPo.

Thank you Mr Wragg. You probably save my car from imminent death!

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video link? :thumbsup:

haha, don't know if anyone got it on vid.

There were plenty that were stood watching, so I'd be amazed if no one got it on a phone or something.


When they let go, they let go propperly!!

would of been team durbango! :woot:

To be fair, as the smoke is toxic, as a club we advise that the car is left alone, if someone so wishes to, thats then up to them. We had one go, and the smell was really bad, some wretching went on too.

Wraggy is a LiPo hero lol

I think luckily, being outdoors it wasn't too bad, but yeah it does stink.

The car wreeks of burnt Lipo now. :thumbdown:

awesome, need pics of it's chardedness now Tel.

To be honest, it was last seen in a pile of sand. Appolgies to Rob as we left it in there and forgot about it until we got home. :blush:

But it was pretty damn shredded.

Don't want a repeat of that too often.

lucky it wasn't a NiMH, would of gone off like a mine!!

I have to confess (although it wasn't for Tel of course - glad the damage was fairly minimal) It was quite funny - looking back.

Me and Ned were in the tent, and I happened to look over to what became it's final resting place and saw lots of smoke. I said to him, "looks like someone has got a fire, or a bbq" We both agreed it must have been a bbq as there didn't seem to be a huge amount of people around, and promptly carried on what we were doing!!!

Fair play Wraggy, not ideal, but last thing anyone wants is for it to just keep burning.

Chris Read (deepdale11) took a picture of it :D

Sweet, come on Chris, post it! lol

Haha, cheers Matt. Luckily being alloy the chassis was untouched. Just the battery strap that melted. Any other car and it would have been mega bucks to repair....along with a new Lipo.

Had a speedo go bang indoors filled the hall full of white smoke mind you they carried on racing tho :thumbsup:

MAN!! think of any speedo going bang, and times the smoke by 10!!!
It was spectacular to say the least.

Nice so enough smoke to fill the Tamworth hall then :thumbsup:

TBH, I thought someone had a BBQ going or something!

no worries Tel , couldnt believe people were just watching it really, but at 1st just thought it was speedo until it carried on and started getting thicker, took a few secs of wafting to actually see any wires to pull out !! lol:thumbsup:, not ideal but someone mental has to do it :woot:

Sounds like some sort of heroic movie :woot:

would any other car have shoved a pin thru a lipo tho? :)

brave man to go pull the lipo out tho and save you some money or the whole car would have been wrecked...alloy or not.

My B44 has come close to doing it. So I guess you could count BJ4 and B-max in the list as well.

Tel, i didn't even see it go up I noticed you weren't counting on the screen during the race, turned round to ask scrutineering if you had been through them and saw you standing next to a big plume of smoke.

We got rid of the evidence at the end of the day, Chris will put the picture up I am sure but all the remains looked like was someone had set fire to a book, thats how little there was left.

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

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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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