Well is was a beautiful morning is So.Cal. so I gathered up my Naughty Girl a new indoor plane and my PT-19 and headed for the field to meet up with some friends.  I decided to open up with a quick test of the new indoor plane.  Too breezy and made a rather hard landing in the grass.  All is well and I decided not to try again until an indoor site opens up.  So then I took the PT-19 out to the paved circle.  The flight started out very nice, I got my three laps in and just before I threw up my hand to signal the beginning of the pattern (I always practice how I will fly in a contest) I felt a sudden snap in the handle.  The PT-19 went strait in from about 8 feet at full power.   To say the plane was destroyed does not do the crash justice.  The motor, battery, plane all destroyed, the ESC showed damage but might be salvageable.  The timer looks OK but you talk about a debris field there were parts of airplane everywhere.  What a shame this plane was my park practice plane for Old Time Stunt.  The line snapped at the connector where it attached to the plane, it looked like it came apart inside the crimp.  These were fairly new lines and showed no sign of wear.  Oh well!
Andy

The line snapped at the connector where it attached to the plane, it looked like it came apart inside the crimp.  These were fairly new lines and showed no sign of wear.  Oh well!
Andy

Don't like crimped lines. Too easy for the line to be damaged by over crimping.  Also can't see inside the crimp tube to inspect for damage.  I perfer wrapped lines.  Either Tom Morris ready made or I wrap my own using Tom Morris line wrapping jig.

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You know Denny I really did finally have the PT-19 dialed in.  I would take it to the park and was having fun with it, oh well as I tell others if you can't deal with a crash you might want to take up bowling. I am actually thinking about ordering another one and put a power package in it more suited to the plane.  As I said before Frankenstein was made up of leftovers and used to do an article in the club newsletter.  How did I know I would grow to like Franky?

I also believe I will not buy pre-made lines anymore and I will go to wire wound ends not crimped.  Anyway I am done wining.
Andy

Andrew,
Sorry that you lost your plane. Were you using a castle controller? If so just send it in for "repair" and it will be replaced for a flat rate of around half price. I had one burn to a crisp in a crash, I put the remains(a few wires and and a crispy board) in an envelope and filled out the repair order http://www.castlecreations.com/support/repairs.html and about 2 weeks later i had a new one.
William

OK Doc, what's the swagging method?  I have no idea what that is refering to.  Believe me I want a good way to do this, a picture is worth a thousand words.
Andy