used the sspl stuff from ABS (I think it had a base set of things for it?) for the payload, made everything else by hand (which probably explains why it's falling apart now)
Could you not do that?
Nobody is going to judge you if you don't remove the description of the issue.
But if someone has the same problem, he might be able to solve the issue by himself, by finding this thread with Google.
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