How to safely store lipo with 5.5mm connectors?

[wickedgmc]

black electrical tape over the ends

[Darin Jordan]

You're just jealous I found them before you did!

YES! I am!!

(I did find the site those are sold on, however... Sometimes it helps to be a computer and Internet geek... :D)

They are WAY... WAY less expensive than automotive vacuum caps!

But... I think I've found some I might like better...

[Steven Vaccaro]

That's it... I want some! Tell me where to get them!!

You're just jealous I found them before you did!

[Darin Jordan]

How about these?

That's it... I want some! Tell me where to get them!!

[Rex R]

like the erasers :). sry to hear that about your hwd store, I've found them to be a goldmine of stuff for the hobbiest.

[Steven Vaccaro]

Thanks for all the good ideas. The big office stores locally have the basic pencil erasers. So i will give them a try. I would have went to the local hardware store for screw protectors, but after almost 100 years in biz, he closed. HD and Lowes killed him. I was quite sad. I shopped at his store at least once a week.

How about these?

[Rex R]

5/16" screw protectors from the hardware store, if your local store is like mine...take a pack with you to make sure you get the right size(1/4" & 5/16" tend to be mixed). or order some from mcmaster-carr.

[andym]

I just cut a piece of heat shrink about 3" long slip over one side the bend in middle and slip over other, its cheap, it works and we all have heaps of heat shrink.

[JimClark]

slilcone or car vacuum hose also

[Jeepers]

Steve, thats the best idea i have seen in awhile thanks!!!

[SJFE]

lol amazing how we overthink things sometimes isent it .

[Steven Vaccaro]

I bought some fancy silicon caps today. But than I just thought of this, a basic pencil eraser

[eboat]

I have the male and female 5.5 ends on my lipos also
I use the valve cap cover from car tires
the tread on the cap will screw on to the shrink wrap and stay perfect

David

[Doby]

On mine, when I have the Mfr make them for me (I use 6mm gold plugs) I ask them to be made with one lead abot 1/4 inch longer than the other. That and rubber caps ensure tey won't short !

[Darin Jordan]

Steven,

Even with them polarized (I would suspect that most would be doing this), I cover the negative (male) terminal with rubber caps, or at the very least, a piece of electrical tape... As time goes on, the heat-shrink can pull back slightly an the contacts can come together... I know from experience!