Posted by Patrick Norton on 9/1/2026 to
Old Tech & Build Posts
Now for something I promised before....
LED Connections
Complete Gallery (with full-size images)
The offending plugs:
I'm going to make use of the rear body mount:
Stainless hardware and springs:
I started by adding a styrene piece to that rear body mount. Then added the hardware with springs:
Then I chopped off the jst plug and put on some eyelets.
Connected under the styrene and then all added to the body mount:
Now for the underside of the body....
More hardware & eyelets:
Body side assembled:
Testing:
Last week I had a little bit of a scare when the OG forum RCCrawler went down. It turns out it was temporary but still, I want to preserve some of my old build threads & tech posts. So I am converting a few of them to blog posts ... because I'm old.
Stay off my grass you meddling kids!
---------------------LED Connections
Complete Gallery (with full-size images)
The gist of this project was that I wanted to be able to pull my body off and not have to plug/unplug the LED wiring.
I knew the little JST plug would fail eventually. So ...
I'm going to make use of the rear body mount:
Stainless hardware and springs:
I started by adding a styrene piece to that rear body mount. Then added the hardware with springs:
Then I chopped off the jst plug and put on some eyelets.
Connected under the styrene and then all added to the body mount:
Now for the underside of the body....
More hardware & eyelets:
To mark the holes .... OK. It's been a decade ...
It looks like I dabbed something wet on the spring loaded contacts to mark the bottom of the interior, but I don't actually remember.
Body side assembled:
Testing:
I can say with absolute confidence that this works great.
I did this project in December of 2009 and it still works as of this writing in 2026!
Thanks for reading!
-Patrick "Locked Up" Norton
