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You nailed it. Good call. I put a strip of insulation tape between the ESC cables (which strangely are already insulated) and the frame/motor screws and that did the trick. See pic attached. Thanks for all the help. Onto the next issue :)

Hi and thanks for the response. So based on what you said about the screw length, i detached a motor from the frame and tested it and it worked perfectly. But i checked and the screws are not touching the coils. The motors come with 2 sizes of screw and i am using the shorter ones and they...

HI Again. I got some Crazepony DX2205 KV 2300 brushless motors and set them up with my 30a ESCs, Matek PDB-xt60 and Li-poly 14.8v 30c 300mAH RC Battery. But when i power up the motors they start to smoke and do not seem to spin very fast. Any idea what i am doing wrong?

Thanks for all your help on this. New motors it is! I will look into the other recommendations.

Hi, Yep, I got cocky and tried to combine to builds into one. I followed a build video on ubemy for a drone that works with a Raspberry pie because I wanted to be able to code missions into it. This build is built on a larger frame with 10" props BUT I decided I wanted to use a smaller frame...