So yesterday I finally worked up the stupidity to try soldering some wires together. A combination of inexperience and some weird coating on one wire from last time led to me melting 2 motor-ESC connectors, blackening (charring?) a wire and giving my thumb (or was it my pinkie? It was on the right hand) a boo boo! After 7 months in intensive care recovering, I played whack-a-wire until it drove straight. I screwed on a switch and it’s pretty much at combat readiness!
You’ll also need a locking bar for your weapon that stops it rotating
“Craig”
Uh oh-
You should not use anything that could slip off - like a clamp
“Also Craig”
Huh. Oops. I guess it’s time to use that jet engine powered drill to blast a hole in the front armour! Since everything else is finished, you can rest easy that I’d bestow a photo of TSA upon you if I had one.
Guess who’s finished! After Ollie made his first contribution to the forum by reminding me about locking bars, I found a pin and drilled a hole through the top. But (there’s always a but) the motors are yet again wired up wrong! I’ll have to go poking around again to see what needs switching. I’ll admit, it isn’t the best locking bar, it’s just a needle with a red ziptie, but it should work long enough to drop it on the floor, and will allow for a half rotation at worst.
Edit: Consider the wires poked! During testing, it delivered some mean scratches and yeets to the testing targets, launching one out the test arena (Don’t worry, the arena itself may not have walls but I was behind a thick glass panel) and taking a chunk out the other!
