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Gold Dust (Speck 85 Brushless)

By tch on Mar 25, 2017

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Not a simple build, very tight tolerances, had to order a bit of M2 nylon hardware and the correct M2 metal motor screws (banggood sent M1.5).

To make the motors high enough I had to 3D print some motor soft mounts http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:2068173 (stretch up to 2mm)

Very fast and fun quad, more fun than the 5" because I can't kill someone with this and it can do some really tight gaps.

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