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<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>I live on a salt marsh and at low tide I
occasionally fly foamies in my back yard. One day I had an indoor model set up
for radical 3D out there and there was too much wind and I got behind the buggar
(way behind ) and I lost it and it buried itself in the soft muddddd. I think
the ESC was a Bluebird (Castle) and the shrink wrap was totally packed with mud,
so I took the plane over to the garden hose and thoroughly flushed all the mud
from all components including the ESC and then went in the house and removed the
shrink wrap and dried it out with my heat gun and it's been flying for quite a
while now in another plane. Maybe I was just lucky.</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
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<A title=bob@toprudder.com href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">Bob Richards</A>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A
title=nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org
href="mailto:nsrca-discussion@lists.nsrca.org">NSRCA Mailing List</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 15, 2007 8:32
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Something
different</DIV>
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<DIV>I have had two speed controllers end up in the lake, and both times they
were fried - literally - before we could even get the plane out of the water.
I have witnessed several others have the same fate. I have not had the
pleasure of dunking a Castle controller yet. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
<DIV><BR><BR><B><I>Scott Pavlock <<A
href="mailto:f3aflyer7@gmail.com">f3aflyer7@gmail.com</A>></I></B>
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style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #1010ff 2px solid">If
it is a castle controller it should be fine. You just have to let it dry for
a few days and make sure there's no contaminants.<BR><BR>
<DIV><SPAN class=gmail_quote>On 10/13/07, <B class=gmail_sendername>Bob
Richards </B><<A
href="mailto:bob@toprudder.com">bob@toprudder.com</A>> wrote:</SPAN>
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<DIV>Speed controllers can become toast almost instantly when coming in
contact with water. The rx and servos can be flushed out out and dried
with compressed air and they will probably be ok. </DIV>
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<DIV>Don't ask me how I know. :-)</DIV>
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<DIV>Bob R.</DIV>
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