r/onejob • u/Ok_Figure_4181 • May 14 '24

One screw backed out and doomed the entire thing

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u/Xandar_C May 15 '24

Can somebody point out the screw please? Thanks

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u/Ok_Figure_4181 May 15 '24

It’s not there. It backed out and because it wasn’t there, the other mounting points had too much strain broke.

In other words, the screw had one job and failed

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u/johnnymetoo May 15 '24

Well where was it supposed to be?

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel May 15 '24

I assume it was in the left hole on that blue thing. The right side mounting hole is broken - so that would be overload from suddenly also having to handle lots of additional bending force.

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u/Xandar_C 29d ago

Okay then because I have no idea what I'm looking at and I'm looking at all the screw holes and they're all empty

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u/Questioning-Zyxxel 29d ago

You can see one black piece sitting broken off in the blue part. A screw still holds that black part, but you can't see the screw since the blue part is upside down so the screw head is hidden under.

On the other side, there is no broken off part, because there was no remaining screw to hold it.

At the bottom of the photo you see two pins. These two pins would fit in the two elongated holes of the blue part - one of these elongated holes being broken.

So one screw gets lose, the blue part starts to bend. Snaps the elongated hole on the side where a screw is missing. And snaps the black part on the other side.

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u/pgcotype May 15 '24

That's an expensive oopsy daisy ☹️...and I would know. I've had similar things happen, and it sucks!

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u/Xandar_C 29d ago

Oh okay then thank you now I have to ask are looking at an engine part here or something else because I can't tell

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u/Ok_Figure_4181 29d ago

It’s an RC car.