ORIGINAL: Chucksolo69
This weekend was an RC disaster for me. I took my 19 year old nephew and his buddies with me to run my collection of 1/16th Traxxas vehicles (MERV, Mini Slash, Boss 302, and Rally). Well, there were three of them, plus my brother, his daughter, and me. My brother has his own Traxxas 1/16th Fiesta so he and his daughter were driving that. My nephew and his friends picked out a car they wanted to drive and we hit a smooth, dusty asphalt parking lot. That's when the mayhem began. Instead of one way driving in an oval conifguration like I was doing with my Losi 10 T, they proceeded to run forward, backward, figure eights, and basically the afternoon deteriorated into a Traxxas 1/16th destruction derby. Needless to say, I did not come away without damage to my cars. I know now why people in this age group are constantly posting about breaking stuff on these forums; absolutely no discipline or concern for property of others. Well, one of the yo-yo's proceeded to run a lipo battery in one of the cars in NiMH mode and now I have a dead $40.00 lipo battery another pulled the plug on one of my Traxxas batteries so hard, the plug came off in his hand, and another succeded in destroying the center driveshaft on my MERV. I don't even want to mention what the bodies of the cars look like, especially my Mini Slash, my Boss 302, and my Rally; mainly the Mini Slash. To add insult to injury, one of the idiots asked me if he could drive my $500.00 Ten T. My reply: ''I shouldn't have trusted you with my $300.00 mini cars, why in hell would I let you drive a car that is almost twice as expensive!!'' He couldn't understand why I wouldn't let him drive my Ten T! Needless to say, none of this is gonna happen again. What really bugs me though is that I told them from the beginning that these cars were fast and to please take it easy and ''drive'' the cars. It did no good. Afterward, not one of them offered to help me clean the cars or asked me about helping repair the damage, they just went on their merry old way. Never again will I let those guys run my cars again, that includes my nephew..........well, live and learn I guess. In the meantime, I'm out close to a hundred bucks!!</p>
Don't mention just post pictures of the carnage. Remember pictures are worth a thousand words
Seriously though I won't let my nephew ouch my RC's (he's a fair bit younger than yours though). At 1st he was wondering why till he got his own and has to pay for replacement parts himself (I do the work)
As for running the lipo in NiMh mode why didn't you set the ESC yourself seeing I doubt he knew better. That one I would lay the blame on you.
The rest is just how people are if its not theirs they don't usually give a crap. For an example its why I won't let my brother
EVER borrow my car after I seen what he did to my parents van years ago (neutral drops in a mini van...). He looks dumbfounded when ppl tell him no, and gets pissy but hell he does not respect peoples property so he don't get anything in my book
