DIY turnigy9x mini receiver

Hi! I'm going to receive my first DLG in a few days, and I need a receiver for it, but t9x receivers are usually big for the small pods of these planes.

As I have a FlySky9x radio (same as the turnigy9x, eurgle 9ch, etc), we don't have microreceivers for them (or at least I cannot find them), so I wanted to take one of the smallest receivers for this radio (the 3ch one) and try to shrink it a bit.

These 3ch receivers are small, but the vertical connectors take a lot of space, and the case it's also big, so let's start, first removing the case:

 Then we are going to remove the vertical pins and solder some horizontal ones, it's easier to unsolder them one by one, so first remove the plastic joining them:

Now, heat each pin with the soldering iron and pull it from the other side with some tweezers, it's much easier if you use a "third hand":

After removing all the pins, clean the holes with the soldering iron and solder wick or a solder pump.

Now we put the horizontal pins in place...

and solder them:

I re-use part of the original sticker to mark the pins,

And this is the final result after wrapping it in shrink-wrap:

It takes much less vertical space (because of the servo connectors) and it's a bit narrower and thinner. I can't wait to try it with my new DLG!

Thanks!