Cheerson CX-20 ebay Gimbal Mounting Bracket

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This is a remix of iskor12's design, although I recreated it from the ground up without his original design I'd of never had the idea to create it, thanks iskor12! During my redesign I changed a couple of things to make it better suit my requirements: I printed one of iskor's design and due to using the wrong material (my inexperience) didn't get on well with the spring clips. I've designed those out and used a couple of the landing gear thumb screws (cut down to suit) and a clamp piece instead. It all works very well but the thumb screws can be a little tricky to access. The anti-vibration mounts will flex enough to allow access but it's tight - possibly an area for improvement. Wanting to keep the camera as far back as possible I've changed the design to shift it back a bit, 3mm to be precise. This was as far as I could go without obstructing the USB and R/C connections on the bottom of the CX20. I've only flown my drone once with this bracket, gimbal and camera, the difference was very noticeable. This could have been the weight of the gimbal and camera. I did notice that the drone would fly forwards nicely but struggle to fly backwards, presumably because of the weight at the front. I'm a pretty novice flyer so can't say for sure. I'll probably experiment with a bracket to mount it even further back and see if this makes any difference. ===UPDATE=== I've now fitted some DJI 9450 propellers to my drone and difference is incredible. With the gimbal and camera attached it now flies like it did on the stock propellers with nothing attached. I have created an alternative design of this bracket moving the gimbal right back almost to the centre of the drone (although I suspecting I'll get the landing gear in shot, FYI I tend to use medium FOV on the GoPro) but may well not print this now. I'll upload it as a remix to this design soon for anybody interested. Print Settings Infill: 30% Notes: I had this printed using ABS (Z-ABS to be precise) and 30% infill, so far so good!