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"Negative Lead Corrosion: Until last Wednesday evening this was only something I had read about. I launched my large electric glider and it set off happily towards the entrance gates. It then demonstrated a disconcerting lack of response to control inputs and continued in a gentle descending right-hand turn towards the car park. It just missed the cars and crashed into a tree from which it was fairly gently deposited on the pavement. Lucky Me! On examining the electrics, I thought that my soldered joint between the negative battery lead and 4mm socket had failed, but on cutting off the socket I found that the whole wire part of the lead had been reduced to a sorry black mess! Perhaps in pre-flight checks, we should include a jiggling of the black lead?" Reproduced with the permission of Mike Leonard (Chairman) | |||