Battery tray gone
 

After let´s say... around 12 packs using it, yesterday I removed the battery without noticing anything, later I removed the body to show the insides of the car and then I noticed this
http://img242.imageshack.us/img242/5726/img0377.th.jpg
It only took a small effort with my finger to give it away. I guess this is not usual, isn´t it? Guess it´s just bad luck, cos there wasn´t any specially hard crash, or maybe the battery is too big for this thin wall (rhino 3700 6s1p).

That is unusual. It's such a clean, consistent looking shear plane, almost like it had been cut!

Im just guessing here . But it looks like your battery slid one to many times in the tray against one of the ends, & thus your tray broke. What i always did & would suggest you do in the furture is put some velco on the battery & bottom of the lipo. That will keep your lipo from sliding. Also i always ran my srap from FR to RR not side to side .

Or you could get a custom fit tray for a specific size batt. like I do. Every vehicle I have has a RCM custom tray specific to certain batteries to insure that the batts. stay tight in the tray.

Well worth the few extra $ IMO

My batteries fit quite tight inside so I don´t think it caused the breakage, I may be ordering one custom but with a bit more thickness. My batteries are loose only on the long side but I get rid of it with some sponge. This is the second tray I use, the first one broke too but I had removed one full side so that wasn´t a surprise. This one did surprise me.

Sorry if I missed it, but what tray is it that you are using? Home Made?

-Brian

Might be a RCM tray.

Glue that sucker back together with some epoxy/ jbweld- such a clean break it would only require a little bit of sanding to get smooth/level edges. A little L-shaped brace made from aluminum at either end would help alot too.