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hello
at first
excuse my French because I'm french
I'll try to speak English as best they can today I'm gonna talk
about the landing gears on the 350 QX
for the purpose of my demonstration I'm using
just
the body without anything inside
so when you buy the
350 QX you have these landing gears
they are not very tall and the problem is if you want to put a gimbal
or anything under
it might be a problem
so you can buy some other landing gears
that are what they called tall landing gears
as you can see so mine
I put a
reflective coating
highly reflective coating on the gears
so i can see them from afar so what you can see is that the gears
are
actually taller
for sure but the base of the gear is
the same size
so what's the what this problem
what it's causing as a problem is that
if I take this out
here there is a good stability
but if you put
tall landing gear
the stability is not as good because it's really tall
and the base is still small
okay that's the first problem
stability
second problem
if you want to put these in a
unit case for transportation
with this
height
it's not a problem
because it's about 13 centimeters so most
cases will fit but if you want to put something
big like this
it won't fit as
like like this it will never fit it's really really
too too tall
ok so
I came out with these two problems and a wanted to find a solution
to be able to remove these gears in field
without any tool and to put them in back in place
so I can tidy them in the case
and put them back
when I need that so
two problems stability
and being able to remove this
I'm going to try to do it fast first for the stability problem
what I did
is that I took these gears
and I decided to add
carbon fiber
rods here are square carbon fiber
and it's one centimeter diameter so what I did
I
drilled holes in this
rod I
I used
I used some
nylon plastic screws so it's still very light
screws that I glued
and
now it's
quite easy
because I can put them in place
and to be able to take them fast
I used thumb screws
so three millimeters
screws
and here
the good things about these screws
so you see
and then it's really sturdy a good thing about these screws I'm talking about the
plastic screws is
this that you can easyly cut them so these one were like 20 millimeters long
but I only needed something like twelve or thirteen
of 15 so just with a cutter
it's really easy to cut
okay and I drilled many holes
so I can if I want to
put them just
more on the outside or more on the inside
it's not a problem
I did this because when you use you camera for
first person view sometimes depending of the field of the lens you're using
but you can see the gears so you might want you
to put them like this so you won't see them
okay whatever
very easy solution
and very cheap solution
you can find all these on ebay for a few bucks
okay
with this
it's very stable
what I'm gonna do next but I don't have it already
wanna put some like
bowls here and here
whith colors so I can even see better from afar
okay so that was for the stabiliy problem now the other problem
was to be able to remove this easily
so if you take this and you will see
you have the screws here and here
if you want to
put them back in place
you need a tool
Annd you should not loose this
take them out from the case
and it's the other one
and when you want to put them back
it's it's always the same problem you have to put this screw again
and to screw it
okay
so
instead of having a screw here and here plus when you're
using this screw
time after time that might hurt
the plastic casing I
instead of using these what I did
I baught these little
I will show you
2.5 millimeter that's the diameter
of these screws
instead of
placing like this and this I placed them
inside so I'll show you the inside
that's the inside empty but normally here
you have the
control board and the GPS and the battery here
okay and you can see here
this
is this
so
I
put that here
in a way that it goes
out here
what I did
next
I removed some part of plastic here
so this come out about like this
and a
using
some spacers
2.5 millimeters
I can then
fix that here
on the body
and take this out
okay the problem is
that it's not easy to do so I prefer thumb screws I didn't find any
2.5 millimeters thumb screws so what I did
screws by myself so I took some
2.5 millimeters
I baught these 2.5
here is a 2.5 screw
here are my three millimeters
thumb screws plastic that I use for the rods
and then I do this I glued everything so it's very sturdy
and nice
and I have thumb screws
and so this is really easy then
to
manipulate
okay so are here is the finished product
here is what I did with
my
350 QX
you can see here
this screw coming out from the inside
and here
I can then
okay
I show you
how fast I can do this
this is in my suitcase
I take
take it
up
its so fast
and that's done
and now
this is just as good as if there was the screw
from
the outside
and I have my
350 ready
to be assemble or disassemble
yet there is still another problem but I will
just talk about now its these
little compass you know that these compass
is going inside the
the body
and it's plugged to the control board
goes by these little holes that you can see
here
you see the hole
okay so
normally you have
I should have it here somewhere
okay this is a compass here by the way
never put these near magnets or any magnetic field
because
it can ruin it so
this goes inside through this
okay so you have the body here it goes into the body
and then into the main board so that if you take this out
you have this
and this is a problem because you cannot put that away with this in
so what I did I baught these little
connectors that are exactly the same as this one
and midway
here
I put
one of these connector
so now I can easily take it
out
this
I show you
and even the gear with the
the compass on it I can
take it out
you can see the compass is still here
and I can put that
in my suitcase
ok and now
even with my gimbal here
the size
is still
13 centimeters I can prove it
look
this is
still
the same
as when I was using
the small gears
so this will fit in any case
thank you for watching I hope it will be of
any help for people looking to improve there
350QX and I will come back very soon with
other videos thank you bye