 I decided I wanted to just do a little bit of a modification to this today and I wondered what it would look like in white and rather than go out there and buy a white one, I forget I would buy a shell because you can buy these for a little over £13 and I think it's going to be a nice little touch just to see what it's like and not only will I get to see what it's like in white, I'll also get to strip it all down, this that is, and get to see what's inside. Now I've already taken this apart once, I was having, well, one of those is it was only time I put my hands near it, I'd lose the GPS and I understand now by talking to Hobson and China but that's normal anyway, but I was a bit worried so I wanted to take it apart and just have a look inside anyway and I did, there's a cover between the GPS module like I'm sure I've done this in the video already, not this video that I've done already like I've gone back in time and started again, but I was pretty sure I made a video of me taking it apart, I have, I know I have, I just have to put it apart when I do this quite often because there's like a barrier in between the GPS and the rest of the but it was quite low, that's what I did, I pushed it all the way up and sealed it all right around nice and tight and yeah since then apart from one time the other day when I was flying where as it went over the head and passed the back of me when I tried to bring it down it just continued to go away from me up, that's the only problem I've had with this recently so but it seems like in my bit of a mission changes around but I think it's gonna work, I think it's gonna look quite cute in white and as we've got a couple of few days of rain ahead of us I've decided that I'm gonna I'm gonna swap it around now so let me position this camera, get this out of the bag and we'll have a look at what we've got, I suppose the first thing that's gonna be noticeable with this shell is it doesn't have the canopy, it doesn't have this little, I'm not sure what you call that, this little bit here like his mouth and it doesn't have a back door, there are no screws and bits and pieces it is literally just the main body shell upper and lower, there we go, you know so far I've never seen the bottom of this like this because down here is the camera and the transmitter module, the rest of it doesn't look like it's gonna be too complicated this is where the motor controls go so I'm hoping it's gonna be a straightforward thing to do, now the reason why they've got these little white things here was it was just easy for me, I don't flight in headless mode because it's a bit fair, I don't use a GPS anymore either, I find it quite annoying, altitude, I have to use altitude hold because I don't like the manual mode, I don't like the way it just shoots off up in the air, it's a bit freaky anyway, it's bad enough when it does that on occasion in altitude hold but I'm hoping that would just be a fair fix somewhere down the line, but it's you know just for flying it around, a line of sight, it's pretty good, it's quite nice fun, I was out at the park the other day two hours continuous flying pretty much and that's a continuous you know when the battery runs out I'm gonna swap over the batteries but give it a minute or two to cool down because it was once or twice, I put my fingers in the back here just to check the temperature and a couple of times it was quite quite hot so I left it for five minutes just to cool down a bit but generally it was just like swap the battery out put another battery and get it going again which gave me a great a great test for my mods on my controller, I'm really pleased to say that I've had 10 and a half flights out of my controller on a single charge with still seven volts left on the battery so that's quite a good one, I think this is going to look quite cute in white quite cute and it's going to be a quite nice little experience just taking it all apart and swapping it over so let's get cracking with it got a whole bunch of screws to take out and get myself a trailer ready let's put all those in I will probably speed this up because there's not a great deal that's all I talk about on this just with the screws coming out so from this point until I've got all the screws in that tray from the bottom here in the split I will shut up and I should speed the film up a bit of a pain that one but never mind we'll get it to come up we'll go from just start splitting that away, split that away, save up for safety and this seems to like to come out pretty sort of like straight you can't pull it at an angle it doesn't like that it wants to or just come up evenly all the way around and come off nicely and then you've got a couple of connectors underneath here which I have hot glues in because I took them apart before these have to be a little bit you know sort of forceful but not too forceful and I'm just going to remove the hot slot on these just now it actually comes with hot and this is the the layer a bit of fabric it's like a shield layer and I can say it was like pretty much across the top of there across the top of there but it's not hanging down a bit but I pushed it all up and made it sealing there so I'll take that out again and do like you're doing right, you're quite a good job this is the cover to the GPS I'm going to take that off the shield and this is it's like material but if I just leave that there and there's the GPS module and I'm going to wipe this out and there's got some tiny little screws in here my lights, I expect to find out the way, it's good there yeah so the GPS module is here and this little tiny square module there that's the compass now with this new board that I've put in before I used to calibrate it the compass by the manual says the calibration is to hold it horizontally you know like this and then turn it clockwise twice and then once you've done that it will actually to calibrate compass 2 and you turn it this way nose down and do it anti-clockwise twice but now I'm going to screw that over there somewhere that I will find it but now it takes about sometimes it takes two or three turns and sometimes it takes more sort of four or five turns on the horizontal not so much on the nose down part of the calibration now I'm not going to put these boards and hopefully I've got another empty, I keep a couple of these empty so when I build the little kits I can put the bigger parts and the small parts and ones it's just easy to go over so I'm going to put this that's the GPS module that's the bit that faces upwards with the little nipple on it it's quite heavy as well not heavy heavy but it's just that it's a solid unit that is it's quite interesting really and this around it I don't know if you're going to see this my camera is not very good but around it there's some little I don't know what you'd call them but there's it's like you've got two edges to it so basically the edge of this can fit in between them there's one there one there one here one here one here I've just got my light down again so I can see clearly I'm going to put that back together so we'll check it take it and push it down but push it down before you put it down again it's a little bit fiddle with that's it as soon as you get it lined up it's it's simple enough and that literally just presses over and holds on top so that's your GPS module and pop it in there get that little screw put it in there and this this little tiny thing here this is the compass this is the bug it causes we don't cause a lot of trouble but that's the one that wants to be kind of rated in anytime and there's only two screws in this and there's only two holes so it's dead easy to know which way to put it round put it back in again I'll try to get that screw out let me check that in in there let me just show you that again look at that look not a lot to it at all a little tiny module just jobs quite important now these are the things that I don't know if it's going to be easy to get in or out and because I didn't know I uh I decided I decided to buy the spares now the canopy is the most expensive spare there's some places I've seen them in the UK some of these places like four pound plus but bang good bless them I think I've got mine for about two pound thirty two pound thirty nine and this was one pound something so I figured if I couldn't get this out easy enough without damaging it at all so I don't want to damage this I don't want to break it I want to keep this and I'm going to give it a nice clean I'm going to get the you know the paper parts off it and give it a nice clean down I think it's going to be a spare shell um because yeah just in case a couple of little marks so if I get these out easy enough if it seems I'm going to damage them then I'll just have to wait for the other parts to come in I'll probably still fly it with the white shell without it without them but we're going to see when we're going to get that going now I'm not quite sure I'm not very confident about doing that because I don't want to damage it at all and it does seem like it's quite a snug fit because yeah so I may just leave it I may just leave those in and wait for the other ones to come and also that's the same with the back door as well um because I had been waiting for a back door a white one but it turns out that even though I ordered it it wasn't going to arrive now that looks a bit more complicated to take that back door out than what I thought it might be easy might be okay to me just having to twist that up and push it out be a bit forceful with it and to put it onto the other one but the battery sticks in there quite snug anyway when it's in and knowing me what I'll do is if I can't do it without sort of forcing it I will just leave that in there and wait for the white one to come and just fit it the once you know to the white shell and I'll still fly it I'll just put a bit of tape bit of masking tape over it the same as well do all the canopy as well just put a bit of masking tape over the top if I was worried but I won't take it out on a wet day or anything like that anyway so I'm not going to worry about it too much I'm going to move this magnet away from from the rest of this can't see it with any favors whatsoever and I'm hoping that I'm going to be able to leave a lot of this intact um I'll probably have to take this out up here to get it through these holes it depends how they're disconnected I may have to be soldered from here we'll see how we go along on that field of these motors and just but it's lovely like I say you know I said I've got a couple of few days of wet weather it's going to be terrible today we're looking so busy today so what's next then let's have a look I suppose I'm going to disconnect everything from this board all these extra wires these power lines marked up so you can see it says positive negative I hope you can see that but it does it says positive negative so that's not going to be so difficult to put them back together again now just for a fail safe for sakes because I think this is always important when you do things like this is because maybe you may get distracted or it may be a few days before you can get back to it take pictures take pictures or run a video you know just um you see you got something you can go back to another look up so that's what I'm going to do now I'm getting in my phone and I'm going to I'm going to take some snap shots so I'm just going to just take my photos now just so I get a good idea of where these leads go if I do them all from here I've got no power over it and it's switched off so it's just so I don't get confused it's all I think that should probably be okay where does it turn it down here let me just do it from this side I'm just doing an extra bit of the portion I'm just going to run the camera around videoing just for the only reason I give this track to the way and for some reason my memory fails me I just got something to look back up I should do chances I won't need it but if I do need it it's there right let's have a look at this baby we've got a USB connection for the servicing in here I don't know that just comes out because I've taken them out before I say yeah I'm not taking it out taking out what he comes out to there now I don't know if I need to disconnect that just yet if I don't need to disconnect I'm not going to this is going to be mainly about getting these out I want to see how much of this I can leave intact the camera and the transmitter for the camera is underneath here so what I'm going to do now is I'm going to take the screws out the top of here and just see how much play we have to check on these little screws as well because we've got a few different types at the moment they're the little tiniest ones for those is for these boards and the slightly bigger ones there for this mainboard that should be I think one round here hidden away okay so that's four and that's loosened that up quite nicely okay now the wires are guided on their sides through here and I'm going to note that it's the red wire it may not make any difference but just it's nice to put it back in now it how it comes out there's also some sponges here that's known that that counts as well so that's for the LEDs this uh red blue red white blue and black this for the LEDs I'm going to take those out of there as well it's just nice and gently does it so there's up out of the way putting this up out of the way okay so we've got a nice bit of nice bit of play there plenty of space now down here down here is another connector and that's um that's got white you know it's just black um solasticky stuff I suppose it is uh on it but I'm hoping that rather than me disconnect the one down the bottom I may just disconnect the one this one here um I don't need to do that these are the main controllers because we've got big pick wires and then we've got this thinner one here but this one here seems to be for the camera so I'm going to pull this out firmly that but effectively to get it out because then I can leave that camera module down there to kind of pull that up a bit further so there's quite a bit of clearance space now to see what's going on there which is nice hmm there's the antenna no I wonder right there's some sort of where I can put the antenna on the outside of the shell maybe because it'll be easier if it looks like it's sealed I don't know if you can see that inside there bring this light down so much but where's my little where's my little freebie I got free a post that comes in really handy for the support you know sorry about that probably cut that little bit out or not you know just keep it the way it is it's only you can see down the bottom of there well there's that's the antenna so that's connected by this black wire which comes up to here so this is the 2.4 gig transmitter receiver I wonder whether I can get the antenna out or whether I'm going to disconnect that there let's see if I can pull the antenna up because that's got to come out anyway that looks like it's got some proper slots on it I don't really want to pull the wire it's such a little bit of a little bit of force well it's not force or such but I want to be able to move it so but what I want to do is I decided I'm gonna get rid of this sort of it's not up there I'm gonna take this off because it looks like it's going to be an easy option you don't have to worry about that okay that gives us even more even more movement now I think why that's like that and that's pretty much all disconnected from the rest of it I'm going to see about taking all this out now these these corners now the motors we've got their own screws for better we have to undo these just to pull those through because I don't think I'm going to be able to get that through the hole then actually if I can convince I'm not going to be able to that's going to come undone anyway so as that's going to come undone I'm going to take them out now I'm going to take off a little bit so just not if I can or just pull them out they do just come out pull that through doesn't it's one more little tiny wire there and then point the way that goes oh that's a single wire isn't it just grass in it this is where I've been flying it in the field it's actually got grass in there so there's little wires are the same and more of them yep the male that's going underneath here underneath the camera module so okay I'll turn off what I'm doing and I'm going to see if I can just pull out one of these rubbers and see how I'm using and we're going to be a few of those so I'll just chuck that in it's quite sticky and if you use that again it's good pull that out just get them out the way just so I'm just going to tack them just on the inside of this case just so it doesn't they don't become a pain in the butt anywhere I know then that the sticky isn't going to get covered in loads of you know just I want to pack itself and it's not going to stick them on the side of the case but it just keeps everything into hold look at those little little wires on there's that screw no one lost a little bit earlier look at the little board line there's the camera board is I hope I don't have any problems repositioning the camera get the camera in right okay so we're starting to start off on this side trying to figure out where that one wire goes let's have a look what we've got here I don't want to desolder this really if I don't have to so it was actually this one wasn't it so I already pulled this off I don't want to desolder anything if I don't have to so I'm just wondering if I can get access to these screws on this board underneath and I think I can so I'll take out these screws it's a slightly thicker screw again I'll just take mental notes what screws go where it's the same size as the the top board screws the main board mother board if you like do you know two months ago I would never have done this I'd have been scared breaking something okay now there's still a couple of screws there holding the camera and there's some gunk on there as well it looks like it's pretty pretty thick gunk I'll show you that in a second the same as the main board type screw and that little plastic is just the cover for the camera I'm gonna leave that going there not the screw into there I've like got that yellow type gunk stuff keeping the camera in that's that's not like the black stuff the black stuff's quite soft that's that's quite hard more of a permanent fitting gunk so that's a little bit worrying I don't want to damage anything I want to make sure I can put this camera back in exactly the right angle and that same gunk stuff is the stuff that's holding here the antenna and the receiver antenna okay right let me see if I can just lift that board yep I can lift it and now it's still being held in there or something oh I think I misspoke I think I completely misspoke when I said there was a wire going down here it looks like there's a wire look when you first look it almost looks like there's a black wire going down there but that's not that's part of the case I'm just gonna confirm that now while looking in this there's a white line going down there and that's why I've been mistaken there's a wire in there so so really if we go back to the one that I disconnected which has come out now which is brilliant so that's one of my one of my feet and I wonder if it's gonna make any difference it is going to make a difference to which ones are which here so I am going to I'm going to mark these I'm going to mark these with a little pen which I have I'm going to call this RR the rear right and I can go in a little pot of what a good is I'm going to pull this out here because hopefully that's just gonna come out nicely and that's uh through correct so we can go FL right on this one this last one I won't bother marking because it can't go anywhere else but here the other ones are marked see for my non-alcoholic beverage I'm sorry about that I can't look at the guilt I just like this very alcoholic is a premium 5% okay guys for the sake of wrapping up this part of the video course my camera's gone and done one again you can see that it says card error the reason why it says card error is because now there's a file on there saying that there's there's been a fault and until you get rid of that file it won't actually read the card anymore um nowhere in any the instructions does it say this and I will do a review of this camera because they get me wrong if you're really doing a very short video it's okay but this thing overheats that easy and I think that's what throws the error because it is quite warm it's very warm at the moment so I we were five minutes in and so I've got to go back five minutes really I'm not quite sure how back how far five minutes is back so how much we've lost of the video um so let's go back to just taking a little look at this because as you can see I've not really had to desolder too much I have not well I'd say desolder I've not desoldered anything I've undone the LEDs these as you know and that's about it but there is something I've just noticed I've just noticed that there's a washer there and on that one it doesn't look like there's been any washers on this one it looks like there's one there that's rested on the bottom right at the top right looks like there was a washer there on this one again there's a washer top right bottom right looks like there was one there on this one it doesn't look like there has been any before he'd done this one up here bottom bottom right top right nothing so I'm not quite sure and on here you can see there's a washer still there I hope you can this camera is terrible I I never realized how bad this phone camera was until now I'm really sorry about this but I'm gonna establish that this was the aerial for the transmitter for the board for the 5.8 gigs and I'd had a little go let's just shift that out of the way I'd had a little go at trying to just cut this gunk here I don't know if you can see that little mark down there trying to cut it it's very hard to cut and in the camera there is also that same gunk so I'm a little bit reluctant about doing that I may I may end up leaving the camera in here the lens and looking at replacing the lens because I think I can get this out and this is probably going to be the more expensive part to replace and there's some hot glue there I'm not sure of how this connects but I can only hope it's not going to be terribly difficult and I'm pretty sure I said that I'll do this in two halves it will be the take apart half but let's have a look at it and then we're doing another another half of the video for putting it into the into the white shell but I'm very disappointed with that camera and although I've got my money back for it because I showed him what it was doing I made a video and showed him exactly what it was doing with me it just offered me my money back straight away which is pretty good they did offer to put it in my wallet at Gearbest but I said no it's okay it's my bank account thank you and all that I can choose something else from somewhere else but it's one of those you know if you've got a camera you want it to work don't you it's no good if it only works 10 minutes and then it starts frame wobblers so let's not digress let's just stick with what we're doing here okay so this is going to be the thing now I don't mind taking a risk trying to take the 2.4 giga hour one because I have a do I have a spare I have the transmitter side now let me think about this this is looking me two different arrows really aren't they hmm no okay I'll have to have a little think about that so this looks like it's going to be the most difficult part to get out just because of this gunky stuff I don't know if I can warm this up it's it is quite hard it's like plastic it's not like this this black stuff this black stuff's quite soft it's like plastic but a bit softer which makes it quite easy not easy to pull these out but but they are pulloutable pulloutable that's not a word I'm sorry I'm just making English up as a good one but you can you can pull them out not to not without too much difficulty but they are it's good enough to keep them in there as well you know another it works quite well but this is quite rock solid this is a different this is almost like as hard as this so this is a this is a different ball game I don't know I don't know there was some sort of solvent removal or something I can put on here to soften it whether it's a heating thing maybe if I doubt if anybody or you know maybe no or even let me know I say that's a bit negative but obviously if I could maybe even work out what it is I'll ask them at Hobson actually um I'll ask um I'll ask the contact I've got there because they seem to be very good with me um and I'll um I'll see what they suggest I probably think I'm nuts for taking it all apart hey you know that's the whole part of fun of this stuff isn't it get it play with it take it apart I know there's a fella out there for Mr David Jones gets in just takes it apart anyway so at least I'm playing with it first so and you know with this like I say with this connector here this is more like um just hot glue sorry my fingers look a bit weird but I don't know if you can see the scars down there they got crushed when I was younger and they split open like sausages and a frying pan with the bones out nice that's a bit weird but I got scars all over me I told you you wouldn't believe but anyway let's um so I'm wondering whether I should just pull that off there and see what type of connector this is because that is literally just like hot snot as we all know it you know hot glue I should say and then at least the board then the transmitter board will be separate so I've just got to worry about that camera or like I said I don't want to repeat myself but this is what happens when your video camera lets you down if you don't know what to go over old you know what you've said already or not so so I don't want to miss it out I could maybe just leave the camera in leave the aerial in and just get Hobson to send me a new camera a new aerial and fit it in the other shell which also means then if I do go back to this shell they're already in there it's not a big problem you know it's not a it's not going to break the bank these two I can't see in Boston that much it's probably going to be cheaper than getting this actual transmitter board itself anyway because it's got a lot more on it so and then I got to figure out how to do the how to get this this off it looks like it may not be as difficult as well I'm anticipating but it's just going to be a bit of a fiddle sorry that the lights absolutely terrible there's that little one so you can see that there I'm trying to see what you can see through the camera but that's that's what I've got to try and disconnect that and that that's snotty stuff that's terrible yellow anyway I think that's going to wrap it up now because what is it here it's got to be close on nearly 11 o'clock 20 to 11 and I want to have a little beer have a nice little relax and get myself ready to get to bed so well chaps have you got this far I hope you have enjoyed and I will in the next video hopefully be able to wrap up the building of the next part but I won't I won't just pull these out if I can get them out I'm not sure you'll tell you how I've done it I'll I will take a bit of time I'll send an email off to help some now and just ask them what this stuff is and if there's an easy way for me to get get it out whether it's a heating or that I need to use my solar and iron tip or something just to warm it up because I've got no idea what it is but I don't want to do any damage to anything and I'll also get a price for the lens side and the antenna just in case okay right I'll see you in the next part take care thanks for watching