TL01 chassis and new battery packs

[Roaders]

I have a TL01 that I have quite a few hop ups on and have recently started racing at my local club. I also have a TL01-B that I play with in my street.

At my last race meeting I ran out of cells (I only had 3 second hand ones) so I paid £170 for 6 sanyo 3000 mAH packs.

When I tried to put one of these packs in the car it doesn't fit!!! Well it does fit but it is really tight fitting it through the hole in the chassis - I really have to push.

Is there a solution for this - have I wasted £170? WHat should I do?

Hope someone can help

Thanks

Giles Roadnight

[damo]

dumb question but are the new sets set up as saddles?? as i dont think the tlo1 will take anything other than sticks/side by sides...170 for 6 sets of cells is a bit steep but not to bad.....

[Roaders]

THey are sticks - they do fit it's just that the plastic ends of the stick only just fit through the oval hole in the TL01 chassis.

The sticks I got are the sanyo ones listed here:
http://www.modelsinmotion.co.uk/category.asp?catcode=126

Thanks for the reply.

[Simon Smith]

the plastic covers on the ends of the sticks are probably alittle larger then what your used to, its not a big problem, just an annoying one. i cant think of any solutions to this, so anyone have any ideas?

[Roaders]

It seems a bit drastic but I got a file and had a go at the chassis. There were ridges in there that made it difficult sliding the sticks in and out. After I had got rid of the slightly raised surfaces it was much easier. You still have to push a bit but it's much better.

[minijosh]

If you look at normal tamiya batteries, they are slick on one side and have the connector on the other with the buldge. Only on the TL01 have I ever had problems with other aftermarket batteries. My Wild Dagger has the same chassis sort of and those batteries fit with no problem whatsoever.