Originally Posted by
justanotherdude
okay, the blue velcro fooled me. I thought it was shrinkwrap on a rx pack.
the "braiding the wires" thing has been talked about and advised for a while. so definately do it.
i said something about the "flopping wires" because nothing's tied down, or tie-wraped, or anything, and loose wires tend to develop unforeseen issues that wouldn't normally exist and are hard to pinpoint later. it is even like your antenna wire, even with a spektrum I use a small antenna tube shoe-gooed to the chassis to keep it from flopping and getting damaged.
The wires are definitely flopping in that picture, not disagreeing with you at all about that. I was just "explaining" why I had it like that. I'm normally not that sloppy I swear.
I'll be rebuilding the truck this evening. I bought an xxx-t at the track yesterday that has the graphite chassis and a bunch of other graphite goodies. Basicly it is going to be a bunch of spare parts for my speed-t. I imagine I did at least $70 or $80 of damage to my truck yesterday if I would buy the parts at retail so it only made sense to buy the complete truck with all the goodies on it even though I will just be tearing it apart. When I rebuild it I will do the receiver antenna in the tube like you mentioned. I'll also braid the wires to the motor.