What can I use to fill battery slots on X5 chassis?

[Fiddybux]

Hi,

Looking to fill the battery slots on the X5 chassis. Ideally should keep water out.

Wondering if there is some sort of filler / putty that would be good for the job, or any other means of doing it?

Any ideas at all?

Thanks in advance.

[Body Paint]

Epoxy works well. If you want to make it black you can grind up an old wishbone or something and mix it in with the epoxy then poor it into the slots. Use sellotape on the bottom of the chassis to block up the holes and poor the epoxy in from the top.

[Fiddybux]

Like Araldite then?

Is there a cheaper brand that I should look out for?

After a quick look on the bay it seems that some of it it quite quick setting and some of it is putty.

Thanks for the tip on how to make it black. Nice one!

[Body Paint]

Yeh, araldite will be perfect. You can get 5 minute setting one, as long as you have everything prepared before you mix it up then that'll be spot on.

[burgie]

no no no NOT araldite - it looks bloody awful when it is done.

you need Milliput - it's a two part modelling compound that works like an adhesive whilst drying and is very tough once set.

You can also get it in black, which once dried is not that disimilar to the chassis colour - another bonus of it is that it is also quite heavy, getting the weight just where you want it....where the cells used to be!

[Body Paint]

Originally Posted by burgie

no no no NOT araldite - it looks bloody awful when it is done.

you need Milliput - it's a two part modelling compound that works like an adhesive whilst drying and is very tough once set.

You can also get it in black, which once dried is not that disimilar to the chassis colour - another bonus of it is that it is also quite heavy, getting the weight just where you want it....where the cells used to be!

I've found milliput a bit brittle in the past. Which is why I now use araldite, if you add graphite dust to it (as I suggested above) then it doesn't look 'bloody awful' and in fact matches the chassis colour very well.