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Finnster · 10.08.2010, 10:11 AM

In the meantime, I was looking at making a DIY thermoformer. Looks quite easy to do actually. I was thinking I could use one of these to mold an ABS battery box. However, so far I'm not happy with my layout options.

The big 1520 takes up so much room in the tvps, its going to be really difficult to cram it, two str servos, as well as all the electroncs. The only option I really see is to offset it along side the servos, or just say to hell with it and just mount the entire thing dead center and hang my batt boxes on the side again.

I really like my batt boxes, and they are larger than std. Its less elegant than having everything inside, but may actually be better performance-wise. With the 4ws, the pivot point of the truck tended to move to the center, It would make sense to have most of the weight centered there. The batt boxes also sit lower than I can get them in the tvps, so cg would be better also. It would leave lots of room inside for electronics, and make everything easy to work on. IDK at this point.. have to ponder it a while...

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Finnster KillaHurtz Offline Posts: 2,958 Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Bucks Co, PA	10.08.2010, 10:11 AM In the meantime, I was looking at making a DIY thermoformer. Looks quite easy to do actually. I was thinking I could use one of these to mold an ABS battery box. However, so far I'm not happy with my layout options. The big 1520 takes up so much room in the tvps, its going to be really difficult to cram it, two str servos, as well as all the electroncs. The only option I really see is to offset it along side the servos, or just say to hell with it and just mount the entire thing dead center and hang my batt boxes on the side again. I really like my batt boxes, and they are larger than std. Its less elegant than having everything inside, but may actually be better performance-wise. With the 4ws, the pivot point of the truck tended to move to the center, It would make sense to have most of the weight centered there. The batt boxes also sit lower than I can get them in the tvps, so cg would be better also. It would leave lots of room inside for electronics, and make everything easy to work on. IDK at this point.. have to ponder it a while...