Dogpilot
Well-Known Member
You could try wrapping the lower part of the stick with some thin steel wire, 4 or 5 turns. Craft stores have it in small spools. This way if you find it interferes with the vast electromagnetic world of the controller, you can take it off easily. If it causes no problems, then put a tiny portion of heat shrink tubing over that.
I feel you pain, I have dropped a stick twice and it always buried itself in the sand or dust where I was standing. I do, since I am a geologist, tend to have a metal detector with me (big e'ffing help though, shows the stick is within a pie pan sized area). I carry a strange assortment of weird tools, three kinds of hammers and a wide assortment of chisels. I may have to start carrying a strainer to shift through the sand for the elven sized sticks. The silly sticks are annoyingly tiny and do tend to unscrew themselves if you're doing something that requires long term action on the controls. I have to crank mine down every battery change, just to be sure.
It is even more annoying since once was at night after landing the Mavic 3 Thermal, which strangely works even better for what I look for, at night. I loved sifting through the sand with my fingers on my hands and knees in the dark. We do have, not deadly, but best avoided, scorpions and tarantulas scuttling around here. They seem to love the dark. I do carry a UV illuminator, which makes scorpions glow, so I do scan for them. The tarantulas, they don't glow. At least they are not aggressive, they do resent being bumped and fling the hairs from their back at you which become super itchy. You have to work at it to get them to bite.
I feel you pain, I have dropped a stick twice and it always buried itself in the sand or dust where I was standing. I do, since I am a geologist, tend to have a metal detector with me (big e'ffing help though, shows the stick is within a pie pan sized area). I carry a strange assortment of weird tools, three kinds of hammers and a wide assortment of chisels. I may have to start carrying a strainer to shift through the sand for the elven sized sticks. The silly sticks are annoyingly tiny and do tend to unscrew themselves if you're doing something that requires long term action on the controls. I have to crank mine down every battery change, just to be sure.
It is even more annoying since once was at night after landing the Mavic 3 Thermal, which strangely works even better for what I look for, at night. I loved sifting through the sand with my fingers on my hands and knees in the dark. We do have, not deadly, but best avoided, scorpions and tarantulas scuttling around here. They seem to love the dark. I do carry a UV illuminator, which makes scorpions glow, so I do scan for them. The tarantulas, they don't glow. At least they are not aggressive, they do resent being bumped and fling the hairs from their back at you which become super itchy. You have to work at it to get them to bite.
