Blue didn't want to to share a thread with his brother. He felt he needed his own thread. Do here we go.
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My original thought when I bought it was to leave it stock, but that didn't last long. I think it all started when I broke the lower rear link on the 1st crawl. Drew up some new links in CAD and 3D printed them in PETG.
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From there I started moving the esc & battery to the sliders. I de-cased the esc to save a little weight, also covered it in Conformal Coating to protect it from mositure. It had some on it but I put another good coat on it. After it dried for several hours I double sided taped it to the slider.
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For the battery I ordered some Orvonic 300mah 2s batteries that fit very nice on the slider. Used some rubber bands to secure it in place. While I was at it I replaced the JST's with XT30's. The Orvonic's came with PH2.0 connectors so they needed to be replaced anyway.
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With the battery & esc to the sliders I then removed the front & rear trays. Didn't care for the flex in the frame so I 3D printed some braces to replace the trays. This saved several grams of up high weight.
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With all this I shaved about 27 grams of weight and now have a 54/46 from bias. The next planned upgrade is tires and wheels. Also ordered a DinkyRC ESCape32 esc for it, not that it really need it I just wanted to try one and decided to put it in the Ascent-18 along with a Flysky rx bound to the MT12
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My original thought when I bought it was to leave it stock, but that didn't last long. I think it all started when I broke the lower rear link on the 1st crawl. Drew up some new links in CAD and 3D printed them in PETG.
![](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2Fj2yynftG%2FIMG_4634.avif&hash=8a9fef30dbe6f28f34734b44c71df427)
From there I started moving the esc & battery to the sliders. I de-cased the esc to save a little weight, also covered it in Conformal Coating to protect it from mositure. It had some on it but I put another good coat on it. After it dried for several hours I double sided taped it to the slider.
![](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2FwvMT5zCP%2FIMG-4639.avif&hash=8daa5423031b8b06b8223ffd87932723)
For the battery I ordered some Orvonic 300mah 2s batteries that fit very nice on the slider. Used some rubber bands to secure it in place. While I was at it I replaced the JST's with XT30's. The Orvonic's came with PH2.0 connectors so they needed to be replaced anyway.
![](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2FYSbCm0sY%2FIMG-4638.avif&hash=bbdf99a9433b590daa6137b380a84075)
With the battery & esc to the sliders I then removed the front & rear trays. Didn't care for the flex in the frame so I 3D printed some braces to replace the trays. This saved several grams of up high weight.
![](/forums/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Fi.postimg.cc%2FCxC1SmCv%2FIMG_4640.avif&hash=d5ee78335913a4c3054fc6a875c5d388)
With all this I shaved about 27 grams of weight and now have a 54/46 from bias. The next planned upgrade is tires and wheels. Also ordered a DinkyRC ESCape32 esc for it, not that it really need it I just wanted to try one and decided to put it in the Ascent-18 along with a Flysky rx bound to the MT12