faint hearted should not look!

[Allen Goff]

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

[Allen Goff]

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[Paul Walker]

Sorry to see that Alan.

I hope your wife is recovering well.

See you in a few weeks.

[Peter in Fairfax, VA]

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 

[Bob Hunt]

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

[Tom Luciano]

 Sorry to hear. I have recently did something similar. Mine filled 2 bags!
 

[Joseph Daly]

Allen sorry to hear that. Really sinks.

[john e. holliday]

I too hate to see this about your plane.  Hope your back up is ready.  Also hope your wife is doing okay.

[Skip Chernoff]

Sorry to see that.

[Air Ministry .]

We wish the wife a speedy recovery .

[Dave Harmon]

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

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!

[Donald Main]

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.

[Dan Berry]

I would like to see a picture of the failed device.

[Bill Schwagerman]

Thinking of you and your wife Allen. I know you will hang in there and make a comeback. 

Bill