swishman6

Well were do I start. I built my magic 3 weeks ago and it looked great!! as I was building it I took my dremel and cut off the screws on the control horns. oh no (you know they get hot ) so the hot piece fell on the monocote and burn thru. No prob I'll just close it in there. Ok she looks good lets break in the engine-done, tape up surfaces-done, now test flight !! Great. well I flew it everyday of the week that was nice.MTWTHF, but not SAT because of rain. So Sunday morning I get up and get ready to go fly.alright time to fly !! start, test, and its off first turn at full throttle next turn and on the leg down wind and all of a sudden the magic just goes right down toward the ground FULL SPEED (Bumm)What tha$%^&* well I go pick up the parts and as Im looking at it all to find out what happen I notice that the switch wire to the RX was melted. HUH so I start looking closer and GUESS WHAT I FOUND IN THE RX (which was coverd in foam) THAT PIECE OF SCREW I CUT OFF --- Murphys Law

DBCherry

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Wow. Now THAT's one I've never heard of. [&:]
Dennis-

mAvRiCk-inactive

Man, sorry. Never heard of something that crazy.

Dan

3D-kid330

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Ouch. How did that screw find its way all the way to the R/x??!!!


3D-kid330

JoeAirPort

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I believe it. Screws and nuts always fall in the weirdest places. Those Dremels especially fling things with all the rotational energy.

Joe

SALMONBUG

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I have a similar one.

I was instaling a extension innside my graupner MC24 TX , I let inadvertently fall a small screw inside the tx. the screw disapeared between the electronic components and circuits.

I shaked my TX several time to try to remove the screw without result. I didn't felt confident enough to disasemble my TX to find the screw, and absoltly want that screw out of my transmitter (imagine the screw touching a contact). So I sended my TX to a repair facility with a description of the problem.

TX came back 3 weeks later with with a short coment " TX totaly dismantled to find the screw without result, total cost $50"

argh []

At this time I tought " Ok I saw that screw fall, but it probably fall outside the box on ground"


Back home, I opened the TX again to instal the famous extension and at this time, the screw fall on my knees.........[:@]


thrue story illustrating murphy's law

egor

Swishman:

That really sucks, I almost feel like I was there helping you.

egor

Strykaas

Too bad [&:] ....

One of the reasons why I find this hobby so appealing is that you have to be very cautious when you work on your aircraft. You do not have the right to make a single error, you have to pay attention to everything, otherwise.....

Bule

only one question:

Is your name Swishman6 or Switchman6?
Sorry, seriously, its a shame to hear something like this.

But yes, you will found all that little things in the less imaginable place.

Raul

Pilotsmoe

and it dosen't take a screw to short these out. Any loose alumnium shavings or copper wire strands laying on the bench from striping wire ,will cause a short. Don't ask me how i know. Luckly, The plane wasn't in the air when it happened. Still don't know how it got in there though...

csliger

I've repaired Printed circuit board machines for the last few years, we laughingly call these, " conductive metal freebies". Very serious issue with boards, shavings, solder balls and other what nots.

3D ONdaEDGE

I had a bolt that bolts the motor mount to the firewall come out in mid flight and lodge itself head first with the threads sticking out between my wing and hatch. I have no idea how ot got there. Nothing was even scratched or damaged in any way. The only opening from the inside of the cowl to the inside of the fuse is through the hole in the firewall that the end of the fuel tank sticks through. There was no way for a bolt to fit in between there. I am still amazed about that. but Sorry for your loss.

hookedonrc

Here's another unusual one. I was watching a guy in our club working at getting his Magic in the air for its first flight. He kept having problems with the switch turning off. He would get the engine started and then start the tuning process on the low and high ends. Every so often, the receiver would just stop working and the guy would pick the plane up, look at it, fiddle with the switch and start over. This happened a couple or three times and then finally, the engine was dialed in, and everything went fine. He flew it for about 2 minutes doing loops, rolls, etc. All of a sudden, lost control and the plane went right into the ground ending up in a new kit.

End result was a tank leak. The tank was in a sealed compartment up to where the switch was positioned. While trying to tune it, the fuel would build up just enough to hit the switch and it would short out. When he picked it up to look at it, he tilted the plane enough for the fuel to run over and into the next bulkhead. Then when he set it back down the one with the switch would begin to fill again. I can't believe that no fuel came out of the plane anywhere else, but it didn't. So when he finally got it in the air, the fuel tank area filled for the last time and the switch shorted out for the last time. When he picked it up, the entire plane was fuel soaked over the entire inside.

Rotcivv_17

It looks like ur plane needs a little balancing

Cactus.

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so you dremeled this screw off one of the wing aileron horns, and it melted its way inside the wing, however didn't burn out the other side. it went down through the ribs and poped out the aileron lead hole and into the fuz which MUST have been attached at the same time, it then still had enough heat to melt the switch wires, however it took the whole week to do this beacuse it was fine before.

something here sounds a bit fishy[&:]

Montague

Read it a little more closely. The bit of metal was in the RX, the switch wire is what melted. That's because the metal shorted the power leads in the RX, pulling too much current through the switch, causing the wires there to fail. He never said the bit of loose metal was hot enough to melt the wires, and clearly, it couldn't have been.

Rifleman7

This is a test to see if I can get the code right for posting an image.

SALMONBUG

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yes u can !!!

nice plane

Cactus.

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in that case, very weird it got into the RX from that kinda distance [X(]

Montague

Yep, that's true. But I've had things like that happen myself. (well, with out the letting out the smoke part. Never crashed because of it, just a "where did that come from" effect). Things getting loose inside the plane and showing up who knows where later on. A coupe of flights is all it takes, the G forces from the way we fly the models is enough to toss just about anything just about anywhere inside the plane.

DustOffUH1

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Rifleman7,
Nice landing! I can do that too Did you get it down OK?

Covetski

actually, for a full speed crash, that looks pretty good!
I mean maybe it's the plane, but when my first plane crashed full speed, the fuselage was broken past the back of the wing.... I still feel sorry for it , it's laying in my fireplace, waiting for a cold day on which the doom of fire puts it out of its misery for good

BigSTIK40flier

yeah, the magics are extremlt strong for the weight of 3.5 lbs ive cartweeled mine several times after a rather unintentional tail tap all it broke was the very end of the tip of the left wing near the ail. took less that 5 mins CAing sanding and remonokoting