Safety First Lets Stop The Injuries

[Tony]

Tony submitted a new Article:

Safety First Lets Stop The Injuries

Over the years, I keep hearing about someone getting injured in this hobby. It doesn't matter if they are working on or playing with a helicopter, airplane, car, truck, boat, hovercraft, I have heard of injuries from everything.

Lets try to create a movement to motivate people to always remove their props, blades, pinions or tires, and lets make this hobby safe! No more people need to go to the hospital because of a hobby that they do for fun!

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[Stambo]

If I am doing a quick settings change that does not involve running the motors on my quads, I throw a towel over the props, quick and easy.
I have been bitten once by these little 5" props, cut my fingers near to the bone, and because there were so many cuts in such a small area it was not able to be stitched.
It could have been so much worse but it won't happen again.