Don't sweat it.

Everyone has their pet peeve. Some guys will harp on how important it is to care for your batteries, others will insist on wasting hours balancing props. These are not bad things by any means, but they are not as critical as some people would have you believe.

A good example of this is what happened to me this summer. I had an old Ultra Sport at my dad's house that I hadn't flown in years. One day while I was visiting him, I threw a battery and receiver in it just to make sure the servos still worked.

A few days later, he asked if I wanted to go flying. I didn't have anything ready, but he told me that he had charged up the Ultra Sport. So I told him to bring it out to the field and I'd meet him there.

He brought the plane out fully assembled in his van. I fueled it up and took off. Twice during the flight I got a pretty bad glitch at the approach end of the runway. Other than that, it was flying great, but those glitches told me that something was wrong, so I decided to land.

Again, on the approach, I got another bad glitch, but I landed safely.

I had my wife's car that day, so I had to remove the wing to get the plane back home.

When I took the wing off, I saw the cause of the glitches - The reciever was sitting tightly in it's cradle with the antenna still wrapped tightly around it!

There is an EXTREME case of "Antenna Abuse" whose only consequence was a few glitches - So I don't think that a few pull-pull wires or a plastic tube is anything to worry about.