Well, I picked a good time of year to decide I was gonna check things over and get back active in the local flying club, since it seems I'll be busy repairing stuff for a while... Things have been "parked" over 2 years, and it's amazing how much goes bad from inactivity. While checking over my flight gear, I discovered my glow driver wasn't working. I opened it up, and found the battery had failed and was leaking. No biggie, I've been chopping up a good 16 cell 3000 NiMH RC car pack for batteries to build more receiver packs for my airplanes, so I pulled a sub-C cell from that and slipped it in. Nothing. I opened it up, and saw the center contact was oxidized black. I grabbed the Dremel tool and a small stone, and removed the oxidation to expose the shiny yellow brass contact. Once reassembled, all was well. Another piece of field gear ready to go!
Dave AMA119484
http://www.RCDave.net
