First, a note of thanks and congratulation to Mike Griffin........ Another in the long line of excellent videos, Mike. You have become very good at this and I thank you on behalf of those of us who love to get new information on products and construction "how to". Your videos are short, to the point and provide great data. Thank you for doing these.
Second, to Randy Cuberly.........I just sent off some of the "cup end" fittings to you. Give them a try and let me know what you think of the idea. You are one of those guys that I listen to so your comments will be appreciated.
Third, regarding the failure of ball links....... I am old enough to understand that not every product in the market is perfect and will never break. To the best of my knowledge I have never seen or heard of a ball link breaking. That is not to say that it has never happened- only that I have never seen this nor heard of it. I am certain that over the past 10-11 years millions of ball links have been sold and used on millions of model aircraft. I have not heard anything about them breaking and causing model aircraft to crash. If this were a regular occurrence surely we all would have heard rumors of this happening.
That being said; however, I never want to offer a product that is defective! If anyone knows who the person is who was supposed to have crashed in 2007 at the VSC due to a faulty or broken ball link please let me know. I want to speak to this person and find out exactly what happened to cause the crash, what brand of ball link he was using. What size of link was it. Did the link pop off the ball. Did the link brake or did the ball brake? Without specific data all we currently have is a comment about seeing a crash and thinking or hearing that it was caused by a ball link. If anyone has some solid facts please get in touch with me.
Regards
Eric Rule