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Restoring a early gold pan . I want to assemble a box art battery pack. Will this get me started?
http://www3.towerhobbies.com/cgi-bin/wti0001p?&I=LXFD69&P=7

Other than the label change, it should work. Heres the one out of my Edinger.

I have never built a battery pack before . But these sanyo's look close to box art. I will order these from tower and give it a go.

or you could just buy one of these, cut off the shrink wrap, glue the cells together, and say......... close enough.

http://www.waldorfrc.com/servlet/the-4056/Duratrax-Sanyo-1500-7C/Detail

http://onlybatterypacks.com/
Tons of goodies on here; cells, end caps, wire, connectors, shrink wrap, etc. Even have end caps for smaller cells, for making mini stick packs.

The older manuals have instructions for building the battery packs in them.

SteveK wrote:http://onlybatterypacks.com/
Tons of goodies on here; cells, end caps, wire, connectors, shrink wrap, etc. Even have end caps for smaller cells, for making mini stick packs.

The older manuals have instructions for building the battery packs in them.

But not the darn shrink wrap I've been looking for to make some repro old skool packs!

fastang wrote:

SteveK wrote:http://onlybatterypacks.com/
Tons of goodies on here; cells, end caps, wire, connectors, shrink wrap, etc. Even have end caps for smaller cells, for making mini stick packs.

The older manuals have instructions for building the battery packs in them.

But not the darn shrink wrap I've been looking for to make some repro old skool packs!

http://www.wiringproducts.com/contents/en-us/d519.html
http://www.parts-express.com/wizards/searchResults.cfm?searchFilter=YELLOW+HEAT+SHRINK&srchExt=&perPage=27&sortBy=1&layout=list&page=1&srchPrice=&srchCat=&srchMfg=&srchPromo=&srchAttr=
Don't know if it's glossy or not, but keep trying 'yellow heat shrink' and see what you can find.

I can find the tube to go over the 3 cells in a line. If you look close in this pic you can see it is wrapped twice and the top layer is lengthwise and looks to hold the two- 3 cell sticks together. That's the stuff I can't find. It must start out 8 inches wide!


I bought some from Racers Edge but its not correct. It would need to be exactly opposite this stuff where the short end is open and the long end is tube like for lack of a better term. I need the long end open and short sides sealed.

fastang wrote:I can find the tube to go over the 3 cells in a line. If you look close in this pic you can see it is wrapped twice and the top layer is lengthwise and looks to hold the two- 3 cell sticks together. That's the stuff I can't find. It must start out 8 inches wide!

I bought some from Racers Edge but its not correct. It would need to be exactly opposite this stuff where the short end is open and the long end is tube like for lack of a better term. I need the long end open and short sides sealed.

Not sure if this will work, but the bottom of the list is 4" PVC heatshrink tubing. Can choose red. It is 6 5/16" when flat, so just might be big enough to fit over those batteries lengthwise.
http://www.buyheatshrink.com/heatshrinktubing/pvc-heat-shrink-tubing.htm#B

Also found this, even larger
http://cvps.thomasnet.com/item/shrink-bands/pvc-shrink-bands-labels-tubing/pn-1628?&seo=110&bc=100|1007|3001020|3001021

christhepcguy wrote:

fastang wrote:I can find the tube to go over the 3 cells in a line. If you look close in this pic you can see it is wrapped twice and the top layer is lengthwise and looks to hold the two- 3 cell sticks together. That's the stuff I can't find. It must start out 8 inches wide!

I bought some from Racers Edge but its not correct. It would need to be exactly opposite this stuff where the short end is open and the long end is tube like for lack of a better term. I need the long end open and short sides sealed.

Not sure if this will work, but the bottom of the list is 4" PVC heatshrink tubing. Can choose red. It is 6 5/16" when flat, so just might be big enough to fit over those batteries lengthwise.
http://www.buyheatshrink.com/heatshrinktubing/pvc-heat-shrink-tubing.htm#B

Also found this, even larger
http://cvps.thomasnet.com/item/shrink-bands/pvc-shrink-bands-labels-
tubing/pn-1628?&seo=110&bc=100|1007|3001020|3001021

Bottom one looks promising! I'll give them a call, Thanks