okay I've had a look at the video here
iSpindel Assembly - Cherry Philip | Open Source Distilling
for making your board and can see that the resistor could be an issue. Assume you have a surface mount battery holder or modded as per this video?
You should be ablet to drill some holes in the battery holder to lighten it. You wont lose a lot of weight with this but some. Make sure it has end to end strength and that the bits that clip the battery in are strong enough. But this might help.
Looks like the component the holder would catch on is the BAT 42 diode. Not sure if you can trim anything off the bit of the battery holder that would butt up against the diode to give you scope for moving it up.
A photo would help perhaps.
I've only built the breadboard and 3d sled ispindels and then moved to the opensource distilling pcb which was miles better than the original design I built.
We can work it out though.