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RC Dictionary

This is some of the Deffinitions that you need when you are in this sport.
A-Arm- The Thing that always snaps when you are in first.

Body- The thing that sits on top of you car and always cracks when the little foam pads (That stop it from cracking)are in the mail to your house.

Battery- See Dump

Commutator- The thing that gets dent in it to slow the motor down. To punish it you cut it round again.

Comm. Drops- The costly things that come in a little bottle that you put on your commutator for a 2 second power increase. They always collect dirt.

Crap- A word that runs through the pits even though there is no real crap to be found. Unless you live on a farm.

Crystal- The little clip that you put in your transmitter and in your reciever. They break easily and when one breaks you can never find 2 of the same kind.

Dammit- A word that is heard all over the pits. It is usualy said when someone checks to see if the soldering iron is hot yet.

Differential- The thing that looks like a gear and makes the wheels spin different ways when you spin it but your motor can make them spin the same way. (It's VooDoo)

Dump- What your batteries do when you are in first in a race on the last lap and everyone passes you. Then you remember that that was the pack that you "didn't have time" to discharge before you watched TV so you just fast charged it.

Everything- What goes wrong.

ESC- The small box that is filled with smoke and tells your motor to go. Sometimes the smoke gets out and it won't work anymore. This is also (voodoo)

Frequency- The sound that your reciever hears. Someone else always has the same as you and likes to turn his wheels back and forth when you are racing.

Glitch- The word you yell when you run into someone.

God- See Dammit

Hell- The place that the front of your car went to when you hit that wall at full speed.

Kill- What you would like to do to the guy who just hit you off the track and the corner guy who didn't hear you yell and didn't see your car.

Lathe- The thing that you use to punish your commutator for getting dented.

Motor- The can in your car that makes the wheels move and is never as fast as that guy infront of you.

Motor Mount- The special aluminum piece that gets so sctatched up that you can't tell what color it was or even get your allen wrench into the screws because they are all full of dirt.

Mechanical Speed control- See trash.

Never- When you beat the guy with all of the money that has a motor an ESC that aren't suposed to come out till next year.

O- a short word that is usualy followed buy crap or sh---t

Practice- The time that you spend to break your car when you are not racing.

Qualifiers- The time when you do good. Then you do bad for the rest of the time.

Rattle- What your ESC becomes when you get mad and throw it. (I don't recomend that you make any rattles on purpose).

Smoke- The stuff inside your ESC

Stop- The thing that you can never do untill you hit something.

Time- You will never own this but people can use it against you.

Toe-in- How many toes are in our car.

Transmitter- The thing that has a mind of it's own. It contols the car but does what you say sometimes to let you think you are in control.

Trash- The place where all mechanical speed controls belong. You can keep the servo though.

Worthless- A ciesed up gas engine. (Clean it and make it a paper weight.)

Y- The letter that you talk about When your ESC looses it's smoke.

Zero- 1The IQ of the guy who thinks his car is faster than yours who always hits the wall.
2The amount of money that you have left when you stop by the hobby shop.
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