Battery tray mounting help

[simplechamp]

Someone recently made me this battery tray for my CRT .5 conversion that I'm working on. Since it's going into a CRT .5 it will be mounted on it's side like most other conversions. I was planning on just tapping and threading holes into the side, but now I'm wondering if the 2mm aluminum is thick enough to hold up and not strip out. It wouldn't be very much threads holding it on. I probably should have had it made from 3mm, but all he had was 2mm at the time.

Do you think tapping and threading will work? I have thought about using some small low-profile nuts as hardware instead, but then they will be sticking up into the tray and I don't really want that. There are a few extra mm of room to put some foam along the side, but I'm not sure it would be thick enough to protect the lipo from being damaged by the nuts on hard impacts/landings.

Any other good ideas? Maybe some angled tabs coming off of the back side of the tray? Then it wouldn't matter how much the screws/nuts stuck out. I need to see how the spacing would work with the tabs sticking out, I'd like to use the stock holes in the chassis if possible without drilling new ones. Could I do this with some type of epoxy, JB Weld maybe? Otherwise I'd need to find someone local to weld on the tabs, or send it back to the guy who made it for me, and I'd rather find a solution I can do myself.

Thanks in advance for any help, you guys always straighten me out!

P.S. I still need to clean up the weld joints, but when it's all done I'm going to polish it to a mirror finish, should look bling!

[FG101C]

I had a similar tray in my CRT .5. I used some aluminum servo mounts that I think were made by Integy. Drilled and countersunk holes in the bottom (side) of the tray then the chassis, worked pretty good and didn't have any issues. This is what they looked like:

http://www.google.com/m/products/des...73071138949260

[simplechamp]

Excellent idea, just like adding mounting tabs but no welding or epoxy required.