You know who you are!

[pops52]

Is it just me, or are some of you (you know who you are) raising the build bar up still another lofty notch. The rest of us butchers can ill afford your over achievers drive for pure excellence in shipbuilding. This has also proven to be hard on my cat as you know what happens to him when I witness excellence on this forum.

We, at this time, demand to see some out takes, bloopers if you may, of some bungles in order to confirm you remain human.

I humbly submit one example of my normal building effort and experience:

[patmat2350]

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=972621

[Hoghappy]

Hey I found out yesterday just how fast a high speed Dremal drill bit will go clean through a finger tip, when it slips off the drive dog your stupid enough to be holding in your hand when trying to drill out the set screw. Still hurts today! :censored:

[Umi_Ryuzuki]

A ton of putty on the Tito Neri superstucture? :rolleyes:

Of course most of it is sanded away.

[toesup]

I'm so perfect... it frightens me... :D

[Kmot]

Yeah, I have noticed that too Pops. Some builders only show pics of the completed step, when everything looks perfect.

I, on the otherhand, show everything, good and bad, each step of the way. As it should be. ;)

[patmat2350]

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=953819

[pops52]

I'm pretty sure I have a million more screw ups I can post.

It's good though to see others so I can strive to make even more. :)

"SHOW US 'YER MISFITS!!"

[frankg]

:) OK! here is my brain fart.
http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=841246&page=3 :)

[fooman2008]

rules for models;
1) exacto knives are always sharper than fingers
2) don't cut the pink things
3) Dremel tools don't know where the wood ends and fingertips begin
4) never hold anything by hand you can hold in a clamp (see rule 3)
5) the holes you drill in your fingetips always leak!
Foo

[patmat2350]

are beers and/or cars allowed in this thread? :o

[Guard-Officer]

I don't have pictures of it to post today, but on my ice trials of my icebreaker, i holed the hull above the center shaft (propeller drove a piece of ice through the hull!) and took on four inches of water, completely submerging the propulsion motors and steering servo in salt water! the rest of the electronics were high on a bulkhead. but it was moving very very slow by the time i brought it back to shore! was too heavy to lift out of water, had to drag it out of the water on a slipway.

[Aerominded]

are beers and/or cars allowed in this thread? :o

Don't get me started, Pat! :p

[patmat2350]

"I thought I made a mistake once..."

Actually, I don't make mistakes... through a process of experimentation, I identify right (and wrong) ways to do things!

[Aerominded]

...through a process of experimentation, I identify right (and wrong) ways to do things!

That is what makes this and similar hobbies so great-

[BigDutch]

Bought a finished boat less motors some years back from a fellow club member. I stayed up late the night before our weekly meeting installing the motors, props and shafts and getting it all running. Next day at the lake I proudly headed out into the lake at speed with a bone in her nose and at about a hundred feet away from shore noticed the boat was sitting very low in the water. Turned and asked my buddy if the anchor wells were sealed and as just as he said "no', my new boat sank quickly out of sight never to be seen again.

[Mrs. Toe's]

I'm so perfect... it frightens me... :D
Funny...I seem to recall an incident involving something called 'magic smoke'...?? :p

[spacephrawg]

When I get a new phone with a camera in it, I will take pix and upload them of the hack job I did on my PT's rudder intakes for the water cooling supply. They do the job alright but they look third-world. My thinking is nobody cares to look under the boat, or that has been my experience anyway.

Perhaps a subtheme of this thread would be "botch jobs that you are currently tollerating on boats you are still running."

[spacephrawg]

Hey I found out yesterday just how fast a high speed Dremal drill bit will go clean through a finger tip, when it slips off the drive dog your stupid enough to be holding in your hand when trying to drill out the set screw. Still hurts today! :censored:

On the upside, if you didnt indicate it in the picture, I wouldn't have noticed the problem. Great weathering job on her. I'm a big fan of making the boat look lived in and worked upon. Nine times out of ten, only you and a few of us boating nerds will notice the flaws.

[fooman2008]

The Navy gave several of their old 44 foot sail training boats to various organizations two of them ended up in San Francisco bay on in Alameda and the Sea Scouts go the other. Now the sea scouts didn't spend a lot of time sailing the boat until the 40 plus year diesel finally ate it. Their first good sail in the late summer winds they accidentally jibed the boat and ripped the masts out of her. I was working for the boatyard where they finally got in for refitting the masts (after a year) and when they raised the floating drydock the rudder fell off. Seems those zinc anodes do do something after all, keep the steel from rotting under water!
Foo

[keith S]

I was going to show those mistakes, but could't get the glue off the finger to use the camera. darn................

[CGAux26]

I actually managed to figure out how to (GULP! :eek: ) cut 2 holes in the hull and install a bow thruster without screwing up.
BUT
I ain't ever made but one misteak in grammer er spellin, and when I had seen it, I taken in after it, but it had already went.

[jeepers1940]

CG-, Your grammer and spellin' are about par for the course for this forum, but your syntax - well, you'd better go ahead and pay it. :)

[Guard-Officer]

It seems Balsa and resin, no mater how many layers i put on, wasn't a match for a 12 volt motor spinning a 3" prop driving ice into the hull....

[patmat2350]

Resin is merely a brittle layer over soft wood... MUST include glass for any strength...