Friday, May 29, 2015

Quick tip: Securing your battery



Recently, I did some modifications to My Ares Gamma 370. Unfortunately, this resulted in the stock battery bay being rendered unusable. To fix this, I made my own way to make sure that your flight battery does not come loose in flight; some thing that would almost certainly result in a crash.
 Instead of using Velcro, I decided to instead to use rubber bands. These act as a battery door that provide a hatch to easily access the Li-Po.

Tools

For this project you will need:

  • Several rubber bands
  • A hot-glue gun
  • Scissors (or razor)
  • That's it!


Assembly

First, work the rubber bands slowly over the Fuselage of the plane untill they are stretched over the place that lacks a battery bay door





The rubber bands should be Taught and spaced evenly apart with about 3/4 inches between bands. After this step has been completed, carefully lift one rubber band and put hot glue underneath, Then press the rubber band into the glue. After the glue has dried, put hot glue on the top of the rubber band to insure that it wont fall off. 

Repeat this process untill all of the rubber bands have been glued into place.



As soon as all of the glue is THOROUGHLY dried (DO NOT RUSH THIS STEP!) cut the rubber bands where the glue is dried.





Trim as needed...




Congatulations! You're done!

































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