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<blockquote data-quote="peejay" data-source="post: 114699" data-attributes="member: 1053"><p>...ok, so let's continue my journey to upgrade the Spark's RC!</p><p>surprisingly, in these COVID-19 days, stuff ordered on AliExpress came a little bit quicker than usual. also - my ebay-bought RC came in the same day as joysticks [in the meantime I ordered a second model also, for comparison - it came blazingly fast]. so right now it's time to put on some engineer hat on and start cutting, drilling & having fun with upgrade.</p><p></p><p>as you can see on the photo - first pair of the joysticks has inner-thread, the second one has outer-thread. I really hoped, that inner-version would work, even if that meant old joystics would have to be cut not at the base, and there would be some sticking-out part left - it looked like it's "safer" way, as I don't know yet about thickness of the joystick mechanism in which I need to drill to use the outer-threaded sticks. unfortunately sticks are thinner. I am thinking right now how to bypass that. I'm going to try add some thickness to sticks, but as for now I'm not sure how to make it sturdy enough [thread is relatively short, so the mount must be "on point", there's no place for loose parts].</p><p></p><p>oh, and as a bonus I think I'll exchange the broken USB port [I don't have the "squared-dji-style" one, but a regular micro-usb, but I think it's even better] and this way RC would be fully-functional with OTG working again.</p><p></p><p>hopefully my next post will be a video that I'm planning to create during the whole process, so if anybody read this topic before, or even stumbled upon this few moments ago - keep your fingers crossed that I won't destroy the RC too much <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /></p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]12999[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="peejay, post: 114699, member: 1053"] ...ok, so let's continue my journey to upgrade the Spark's RC! surprisingly, in these COVID-19 days, stuff ordered on AliExpress came a little bit quicker than usual. also - my ebay-bought RC came in the same day as joysticks [in the meantime I ordered a second model also, for comparison - it came blazingly fast]. so right now it's time to put on some engineer hat on and start cutting, drilling & having fun with upgrade. as you can see on the photo - first pair of the joysticks has inner-thread, the second one has outer-thread. I really hoped, that inner-version would work, even if that meant old joystics would have to be cut not at the base, and there would be some sticking-out part left - it looked like it's "safer" way, as I don't know yet about thickness of the joystick mechanism in which I need to drill to use the outer-threaded sticks. unfortunately sticks are thinner. I am thinking right now how to bypass that. I'm going to try add some thickness to sticks, but as for now I'm not sure how to make it sturdy enough [thread is relatively short, so the mount must be "on point", there's no place for loose parts]. oh, and as a bonus I think I'll exchange the broken USB port [I don't have the "squared-dji-style" one, but a regular micro-usb, but I think it's even better] and this way RC would be fully-functional with OTG working again. hopefully my next post will be a video that I'm planning to create during the whole process, so if anybody read this topic before, or even stumbled upon this few moments ago - keep your fingers crossed that I won't destroy the RC too much :D [ATTACH type="full" alt="rc-joysticks.jpg"]12999[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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