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Title: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Allen Goff on June 08, 2021, 12:50:12 PM
Mike McHenry and I went to AMA Sunday to do some more "tweeking" on our new stunt ships. daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.
The culprit was a striped out blue anodized ball joint link. I have used Du bro for 20+ years on all my RC and C/L airplanes and never had a failure before. Stupid me I changed and it cost me. They looked pretty but.................never again. Once again, "if it ain't broken don't fix it"
Guess I'll be flying my back-ship.

In the grand scheme of things, no big deal. My wife is recovering from 3 operation in 5 days and I broke a toy airplane, how can one feel upset?
See you at the Nats.
Blessings
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Allen Goff on June 08, 2021, 12:55:31 PM
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Post by: Allen Goff on June 08, 2021, 12:56:03 PM
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Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Paul Walker on June 08, 2021, 12:59:13 PM
Sorry to see that Alan.

I hope your wife is recovering well.

See you in a few weeks.
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Peter in Fairfax, VA on June 08, 2021, 02:01:05 PM
Always a good idea to have that backup plane ready.  Glad to hear you can move forward.

Interested to hear if a jam nut was in use.  Recently I've heard that a jam nut cuts vibration which wears the threads.  Reminds a person of Alaska 261, a catastrophic thread failure. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261) 
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Bob Hunt on June 08, 2021, 02:13:20 PM
OUCH! So sorry to see this, Allen; I know you liked this ship a lot. Build another one!

See you in a week and a half - Bob
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Tom Luciano on June 08, 2021, 02:26:19 PM
 Sorry to hear. I have recently did something similar. Mine filled 2 bags!
 SH^
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Joseph Daly on June 08, 2021, 03:37:32 PM
Allen sorry to hear that. Really sinks.
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: john e. holliday on June 08, 2021, 05:43:30 PM
I too hate to see this about your plane.  Hope your back up is ready.  Also hope your wife is doing okay. D>K
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Skip Chernoff on June 08, 2021, 07:35:22 PM
Sorry to see that.
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Air Ministry . on June 08, 2021, 07:49:53 PM
We wish the wife a speedy recovery .
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Dave Harmon on June 08, 2021, 08:02:06 PM
Quote from: Peter in Fairfax, VA on June 08, 2021, 02:01:05 PM
Always a good idea to have that backup plane ready.  Glad to hear you can move forward.

Interested to hear if a jam nut was in use.  Recently I've heard that a jam nut cuts vibration which wears the threads.  Reminds a person of Alaska 261, a catastrophic thread failure. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alaska_Airlines_Flight_261)

Hi Peter.....that was me that mentioned it on FB.
The vibration over a LOT of flights caused the link to wobble and strip the threads off that soft Du-Bro rod......then the clevis slipped about 1/4" which caused a huge elevator trim change.
I missed the ground and landed safely but it was close.
This was an RC airplane with a 61 engine.
That larned me bout jam nuts!
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Donald Main on June 09, 2021, 07:09:06 AM
Allen I hope the wife is doing better. I haven't talked to Mike due to all the rain but hate to see a failure and a crash. Hope all gets better.
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Dan Berry on June 09, 2021, 04:13:04 PM
I would like to see a picture of the failed device.
Title: Re: faint hearted should not look!
Post by: Bill Schwagerman on June 09, 2021, 08:52:49 PM
Thinking of you and your wife Allen. I know you will hang in there and make a comeback.  ;D

Bill