Top Force Insulated / Plastic Antenna Holder ?

[Live Steam Mad]

Hi, Top Force has a particularly annoying design fault IMHO (among others!), which occured when I bought the carbon graphite lower deck (main chassis plate) of the TF Evo. What happens is that the receiver aerial is in a platic tube which has to be pushed into a metal aerial mount. This part has an outlet for the aerial at the bottom. However, push the aerial tube in a bit too hard and the metal aerial mount's tube wall will slice into the aerial lead, making the cable bare (stripping back some of the insulation) and of course the metal aerial mount is conductive, and SO IS THE CHASSIS because GRAPHITE CONDUCTS ELECTRICITY.

This turned the whole car into an aerial, which upset the RF reception and caused my TF (which was on PCM with failsafe, it doesn't make any difference) to go out of control momentarily and crash head first into a kerb which broke the lower front gearbox a while back (I got 3 alloy replacements so I'm OK for them now).

One solution is simply to fit the stock fibreglass (GRP / FRP) lower deck from the TF kit (non-Evo) but keep the upper deck from the TF Evo (graphite). Therefore if the car's aerial mount bites into my aerial cable, it matters not that much (I hope) as the FRP chassis does not conduct electricity.

However I would like to know if there is an insulated / plastic "antenna holder" / "aerial mount" for this car, or one off another car that will fit?

Cheers,

Alistair G.

[bakaguyjean]

I just carve off a little bit of the tube and feed the wire through. Kind of like they do on motor cycles for the wires that run through the bars. Justt an idea to try.

[topforcein]

i dont have this problem with my topforce.

but what i would do is not push the aerial all the way down and just the metal housing (push it so it just sits about the to slits) so the the black wire the sits throught either 1 of the 2 slits but use a coloured aerial tube as they are a bit thicker than the stock clear tube. that way they wont go all the way down anyway. hope this helps you out

[Crash Cramer]

Me, I would add some heat shrink tube to the bare ariel wire and thus add some extra protection to the impingement area. Just my two cents worth.

[loopycoma]

Hi,

What I did with mine was cutting a tiny slot at the bottom of the plastic antenna tube and thread the antenna through there. Once you insert the plastic tube into antenna base you'll find you won't have the same problem