Wizard Damage

Monty bought a Wizard a few weeks ago.  On it's maiden flight at a local oval in our lunch break it landed inverted and broke the VTX, identical to how mine broke.  I told him to give it to me and I'd solder a new plug on it as I have a few spare. (They come in pairs and I bought 2 pairs).  Today he brought his drone into work and went to power it up.  One of the motors wasn't spinning.  I gave the offending motor a spin manually and it seemed to be jammed.



He had crashed it and it did look to have suffered.  I unscrewed the 4 screws holding the motor in just to check that something wasn't stuck between the motor and the motor protector.  Nope, it was jammed when removed from the chassis.



It was then when I noticed that there were 2 silver wedges visible between the lower bell housing and the base.  Yep.  2 of the magnets were dislodged.  I couldn't get them back in and didn't want to bend anything so we took the motor apart.  This involved removing the circlip from the bottom, and the tiny washer under that.  With a bit of force the motor top came away and we could then see that the magnets had dislodged.

From the looks of the motor it had copped a beating from a crash.

Inside the bell housing it looked like there was some glue on there at one stage as some of the chrome from the magnet was still stuck to the outer wall of the motor.

I re-seated the magnets back in place and put it back together.  When giving it a spin I noticed that the shaft was bent.  This was where I drew the line and said to Monty, I'm not bending that back, I don't want to bend the rest of the motor housing.  The rest looks pretty much straight to me.  The bend starts where the prop gets attached.

I had a look on BangGood's site and found the replacement motors and sent the link to Monty.  This was when Monty ordered one and got to work trying to bend it back.

This didn't end up being successful so he'll have to wait for the replacement to arrive.

It was however the first time I'd taken one of these motors apart.  :)