Top ten things rc related things that piss you off.

[PBO]

Dropping your last pinion grub screw in the dirt

The sound of nitros

Catching an AM/FM aerial tip in the face from the noob next to you

Discovering a slow leaking shock has given you a wet spot in your car

[Slowkrawl]

Trying to get a front dogbone back into a savage flux...What a friggin production.

[Gee]

People that ask me if my brushless rc is gas or nitro. What? Even though they were out the day before when I was running the loud ass nitro up and down the block. This is especially true for a group of young under achievers in the niehborhood. I've exlpained nitro vs brushless to them before on several occasions. Loud, smoke, burns you when you flip it over, etc. Quite, fast, etc. Depressing that these little people are being labeled as: America'a future.

I didn't see BrianG list this so I am going to help him out:
FANS

AND this ones for MisterCrash
All the different size splines on servos and that each require a different count or size of servo horn. I agree.

I 12th or 20th what ever the count is now. The LHS that sells 1/8th scale rcs but doesn't even carry a 1/8th scale clutch bell. Plenty of trx parts though.

The ridiculous cost of some things in the hobby. Come on folks 35.00 for a pair of 5x10 bearings? Fioroni Tractive Differential - 204.99, the look on your wifes face would be priceless.

When one side of the hobby puts down the other side. Escpecially from the peson that has never tried the other side. Yeah I'm talking about you! If your running with the brushless folks there's no need to say ill words against the otherside to fit in with us. Hell we all know the brushless side has a higher intellect, is more mature, rational, and genrally deals with things in a more logical manner. That is what makes us better and we don't have try and prove it by childish name calling. They don't need any help from us to degrade them any farther then they do by theirselves. I talk from experience. As soon as I break out a Nitro to run for a while. I get a little more stupid, and don't think as clearly. For example I may mess with the lsn and the hsn at the same time. Dumb huh? I rarely cuss when I am running my brushless setup, but hell I blurt out words that would make a two bit whore blush and run away when I break out my nitro rcs. Sometines the foul words can last up to five minutes non stop. On top of all that negative, I tend to slouch more when running a nitro RC. So just leave the names calling to yourself and relish at the though that their 10 minutes of fun surrounded by 20 minutes of preperation H and all that is swollowed up by the hour of frustration that turns out to be a bad glow plug. Then some ice cream on top, there is the after run cleanup procedure that brings a smile to every brushless rc owners face when they unplug thier li-po for the night. That has more satifaction then any verbal assualt.

Enough rambling.

Good thread topic Ben. Getting some of this off our chests should help make the holidays more enjoyable for those around us. Let's grab our good buddy Mr. Jim Beam and the chainsaw and go cut down that Christmas tree that's been giving us problems. If it's in your house then who's to say a Birch Alder isn't a Christmas Tree.

[lincpimp]

Originally Posted by Gee

People that ask me if my brushless rc is gas or nitro. What? Even though they were out the day before when I was running the loud ass nitro up and down the block. This is especially true for a group of young under achievers in the niehborhood. I've exlpained nitro vs brushless to them before on several occasions. Loud, smoke, burns you when you flip it over, etc. Quite, fast, etc. Depressing that these little people are being labeled as: America'a future.

I didn't see BrianG list this so I am going to help him out:
FANS

AND this ones for MisterCrash
All the different size splines on servos and that each require a different count or size of servo horn. I agree.

I 12th or 20th what ever the count is now. The LHS that sells 1/8th scale rcs but doesn't even carry a 1/8th scale clutch bell. Plenty of trx parts though.

The ridiculous cost of some things in the hobby. Come on folks 35.00 for a pair of 5x10 bearings? Fioroni Tractive Differential - 204.99, the look on your wifes face would be priceless.

When one side of the hobby puts down the other side. Escpecially from the peson that has never tried the other side. Yeah I'm talking about you! If your running with the brushless folks there's no need to say ill words against the otherside to fit in with us. Hell we all know the brushless side has a higher intellect, is more mature, rational, and genrally deals with things in a more logical manner. That is what makes us better and we don't have try and prove it by childish name calling. They don't need any help from us to degrade them any farther then they do by theirselves. I talk from experience. As soon as I break out a Nitro to run for a while. I get a little more stupid, and don't think as clearly. For example I may mess with the lsn and the hsn at the same time. Dumb huh? I rarely cuss when I am running my brushless setup, but hell I blurt out words that would make a two bit whore blush and run away when I break out my nitro rcs. Sometines the foul words can last up to five minutes non stop. On top of all that negative, I tend to slouch more when running a nitro RC. So just leave the names calling to yourself and relish at the though that their 10 minutes of fun surrounded by 20 minutes of preperation H and all that is swollowed up by the hour of frustration that turns out to be a bad glow plug. Then some ice cream on top, there is the after run cleanup procedure that brings a smile to every brushless rc owners face when they unplug thier li-po for the night. That has more satifaction then any verbal assualt.

Enough rambling.

Good thread topic Ben. Getting some of this off our chests should help make the holidays more enjoyable for those around us. Let's grab our good buddy Mr. Jim Beam and the chainsaw and go cut down that Christmas tree that's been giving us problems. If it's in your house then who's to say a Birch Alder isn't a Christmas Tree.

I am tempted to fly to Washington state just to see you "try" to get a nitro tuned... I'll bring the Beam... You furnish the chainsaw. Sounds like a good combo!

[JThiessen]

Originally Posted by lincpimp

I am tempted to fly to Washington state just to see you "try" to get a nitro tuned... I'll bring the Beam... You furnish the chainsaw. Sounds like a good combo!

Fly in to Seattle - I'll drive us over to the flat land...I wanna see this too!

[_paralyzed_]

"keep it clean" jerkoffs. I was helping a noob tune in a redcat buggy (lame on top of lame, right?) and of course he had no temp. unit or any idea that there's a target window for temp. I had him running decent, but just to be sure I gave his cooling head the ole spit test. Well he freaked out! I spit on his baby! He wanted to keep it clean and put it back on his shelf to look pretty. I was going to explain to him the inherit traits of 2 stroke engines but he was in full temper tantrum mode, so I just said, "good luck" and rolled away

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

"keep it clean" jerkoffs. I was helping a noob tune in a redcat buggy (lame on top of lame, right?) and of course he had no temp. unit or any idea that there's a target window for temp. I had him running decent, but just to be sure I gave his cooling head the ole spit test. Well he freaked out! I spit on his baby! He wanted to keep it clean and put it back on his shelf to look pretty. I was going to explain to him the inherit traits of 2 stroke engines but he was in full temper tantrum mode, so I just said, "good luck" and rolled away

Also known as "Shelf Queens"

[Kcaz25]

Originally Posted by _paralyzed_

"keep it clean" jerkoffs. I was helping a noob tune in a redcat buggy (lame on top of lame, right?) and of course he had no temp. unit or any idea that there's a target window for temp. I had him running decent, but just to be sure I gave his cooling head the ole spit test. Well he freaked out! I spit on his baby! He wanted to keep it clean and put it back on his shelf to look pretty. I was going to explain to him the inherit traits of 2 stroke engines but he was in full temper tantrum mode, so I just said, "good luck" and rolled away

Shame on him for not knowing that you have to tune an engine, shame on him for not knowing to carry a temp gun, shame on him for pitching a tantrum, but all the signs are there for an unresonable idiot, thus you should have warned him. I mean if he doen't know any of that stuff, how is he gonna know that doing something "gross" is a good thing in this case.

My piss off list in no particular order.

1) I hate my passion to take a excellent +10 year old design (maybe older IDK how long it was on the drawing board) and try to make it compete with 2moro's tech truggies. The Maxx really did change everything but it is ancient! Still I continue...

2) Nitro guys who know nothing of electric, and like to show and tell it. Most I've seen know almost nothing of nitro, their own "art".

3) Soldering

4) Glueing

5) lack of real standards in our industry, particularly with batts.

6) Prices of specific types of items

7) Rarity of tracks within 2 hours

8) Shipping

9) There are good noobs. I was one once, still am with some stuff. Then there are bad noobs. Thus bad noobs.

10) bad deals



Still I love this hobby, the facts that make me happy far out way this and any other pissy lists.

Edit: Oh yeah and faulty switches on the MMM. And the MMM case... and the fan.

[Gee]

Originally Posted by JThiessen

Fly in to Seattle - I'll drive us over to the flat land...I wanna see this too!

You fellows bring a change of cloths. I've been trying to tune for two summers now. Just when I think I got it, the clouds give way and I have to tune it for no clouds. Then I have to retune for when I drive it in the shade. Then a quick adjustment for crossing the hot street. Then a little different tune for climbing the ramp I have on the front steps. Of course all that depends on which tuning screwdriver is used. 100 proof with the no pulp orange juice is prefered.


Last night I started trimmng a new body. That reminded me how much I dislike doing it.

Trimming the overpriced lexan bodies.


There are some funny one's in this thread that are so true and you just rofl becuase it has happened to all of us at one time or another. Well except for cutting anlge iron in the nude. lol

[jayjay283]

#4 The fact that RC companies think that dismissing the public opinion wont catch up with them. In including you all.....

#5 Mike wont Make us the Maxx CD BOOOOOOOMN

[redshift]

Originally Posted by Gee

I've been trying to tune for two summers now. Just when I think I got it, the clouds give way and I have to tune it for no clouds. Then I have to retune for when I drive it in the shade. Then a quick adjustment for crossing the hot street. Then a little different tune for climbing the ramp I have on the front steps. Of course all that depends on which tuning screwdriver is used. 100 proof with the no pulp orange juice is prefered.

And BG hates nitros so much, he listed it twice!

That's cheating!

No, wait I mean that's common sense

Boils down to 2 questions

A: How fast does it go?

B: How much does it cost?


Gets really old, really fast......I do love seeing people cringe when I tell them about the cost of my Flux and its accessories. That usually shuts them up.

[simplechamp]

1. When people on RC forums complain too much.

[Takedown]

Originally Posted by simplechamp

1. People on RC forums who complain too much

Please bold, Hightlight, underline & CAPATALIZE this for me! I 100% agree.

[Finnster]

1.) SAE screws. 1/16" hexes for 4-40 buttonheads is just asking for a stripped screw. #1 reason I won't buy a losi.

2.) LHSs. I want to like these places and give them business, but they usually don't have the part I need, or its 3x the price online, and bitch about the things I do have/need. They complain about BL, mostly bc nitro fuel is one of the few things you really need a LHS for, and no one is buying that 11 month old $200 3S Maxamps or Duratrax lipo that been sitting in the case.

I don't mind answering how fast it goes, and I never answer how much it costs. If they ask, I tell them asking a man how much his RC cost is like asking a woman how much she weighs. It just isn't done, and any answer you get is going to be a lie anyways.