De Agostini ModelSpace Hummer H1 User manual

HUMMER H1: STEP BY STEP
RADIO CONTROL CAR
BUILD AND DRIVE YOUR OWN
The ultimate 4WD
Radio Control Car
Pack 1 Stages 1-5

HUMMER H1: STEP BY STEP
Contents
Stage 1
Assembling the 46T gear and front grill
Stage 2
Assembling the hood
Stage 3
Assembling the rear left wheel, right servo saver and air lter
Stage 4
Assembling the side mirrors
Stage 5
Beginning the rear dierential
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RADIO CONTROL CAR
RADIO CONTROL CAR
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HUMMER H1: STEP BY STEP
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Assembling the 46T gear and
front grill
Your parts
Stage 1
Front grill
Grill mesh
Gear holder
46T gear
Wheel
Hubcap
3 x 8mm self-tapping screws x 3
Number plate sticker
Tools and
materials
Phillips screwdriver
File or wet and dry paper (800 grit)

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These photos will help
you to identify the
front and back of each
component.
Use a size 2 Phillips screwdriver to tighten the screw. Do not tighten
the screw fully: leave about 1mm between the screw head and the
front face of the gear.
Repeat Steps 5 and 6 for the other screws.
At this point in the assembly there should be 1mm gaps between the
heads of the screws (circled in red) and the front face of the gear.
Place the projection on the front of the gear holder into the hole in
the 46T gear, inserting it from the back.
Push the gear holder and gear together rmly until there are no
gaps between them.
Align the three holes in the holder with the three countersunk holes
on the gear.
Insert one of the screws into one of the countersunk holes on the
front of the gear.
Assembling
the 46T gear
and holder
Projection.
Groove either side of
the hole.
Three countersunk
holes.
Raised ridge in the
recess.
Front
Back

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On the rear of the front grill
are two pins (circled in dotted
red) below the headlight holes,
and there are two slots (blue
rectangles) below the pins. The
pins t into holes (ringed in red)
and the projections (dotted blue
rectangles) t into the slots on
the grill. Test-t these two
parts together.
This stage of assembly is now complete. At the end of every stage, you
should store all parts safely for later use.
If you nd the t is too tight, don’t force the parts together: le the top and bottom
sides (outlined in red, above right) of the projections on each side of the grill mesh
with a le or wet and dry paper (800 grit). Be careful not to le this part too much, as
it may become weak.
Assembling the
front grill
Now tighten the screws
into the holes evenly,
tightening each screw a
little at a time, and working
repeatedly around the gear
until all the screws
are secure.
Your 46T gear assembly
should now look like this.
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What does the‘T’ stand for
in ‘46T’?
The letter‘T’ in 46T stands for teeth. And the
number before the T, in this case ‘46,’ species the
number of teeth that the gear has. All the gears
supplied in this series are named in this way.
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Tip
This step is to just familiarize you with
how the parts t together, so don't glue
them at this stage.
Assembled parts

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Hood
Air lter cover
Air lter
Air lter gasket
Air intake
Hood hooks × 2
Radiator cover
Hubcap
Wheel
Sticker sheet
Assembling the hood
Tools and
materials
Plastic adhesive
Masking tape
Knife
Scissors
Tweezers
Stage 2
Your parts

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Fit the two parts together, engaging the two projections on the
front grill with the corresponding recesses on the inside of
the hood.
Carefully remove the front grill mesh from the front grill,
temporarily assembled in the previous stage.
Check the area at the front of the hood where the front grill ts,
and the six small projections on the front grill, one at each end
and four in between them (circled).
Hold the two parts
together and apply
adhesive to the seam
between them.
Once you have glued the front grill in place,
you may want to secure it with masking
tape while it dries. When the glue is dry,
test-t the radiator cover in the central
opening of the hood.
Fitting the front grill to the hood
Tip
A good adhesive to
use when joining these
parts together is a low
viscosity plastic glue.

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Place one of the hood hooks into the oval hole in the
hood, inserting the projection into the hole (circled) of the
radiator cover.
Fit the radiator cover into the opening in the center of the hood,
from the underside.
Secure the radiator cover with masking tape to prevent it
from moving.
Fit the second hook on the other side of the hood. If the hooks
are inserted too forcefully, the temporarily tted radiator cover
may come loose, so support the cover from behind while tting
the hooks.
Align the pins on the underside of the gasket with the holes in
the hood.
Prepare the air lter gasket. The correct
orientation for this part is with the longer side
toward the front of the hood.
Installing the radiator cover
Tip
Remove any burrs
from the part with
a knife before
tting.

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Hold the air lter cover so that the cross is facing you, and hold
the air lter with its bottom side toward you.
Insert the air lter into the cover, as shown, but do not apply
any adhesive.
The air lter assembly ts into the hole next to the gasket.
With a pair of scissors or a knife, cut
sticker number 8 from the sticker sheet.
This sticker will be applied to the hubcap,
so be sure to cut around it in a circle.
With tweezers, peel the sticker o the
backing and apply it to the center of
the hubcap.
Make sure the
two depressions
on the hubcap
(circled)
are aligned
horizontally with the lettering 'CTIS' on
the sticker.
Carefully push the air lter into place, and secure it temporarily
with masking tape.
Installing the air lter
Applying the stickers
Top Bottom
Before proceeding with the assembly, be sure to identify
the two sides of the air lter correctly, as shown here.
Assembled parts

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Right servo saver upper arm
Right servo saver lower arm
Servo saver spring
Servo saver shaft and adjuster
3mm rod stopper
3mm nylon nut
Tire
3 × 10mm self-tapping screw
Air lter cover
Air lter base and element
Left servo saver upper
and lower parts
Air pipe
Assembling the rear left wheel,
right servo saver and air filter
Pliers
Wet and dry paper (600 grit)
Instant adhesive
Phillips screwdriver
Tire & Wheel
Familiarize yourself with the
dierent parts of the wheel
and tire, as they will be
referred to in the steps.
Wheel rim
Sidewall
Tread
Shoulder
Stage 3
Your parts
Tools and
materials

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Hold the tire and wheel, as shown. The
wheel must enter the tire through the
wider hole.
Working around the wheel, pull the shoulder
of the tire back slightly to help ease it into
the groove on the inside of the rim.
Turn the wheel assembly over
and position the other side
of the tire into the groove on
the other side of the wheel.
Wash the tire with some dishwashing soap, paying especially
close attention to the areas that will be in contact with the
wheel rims.
Ease the sidewall back a little,
creating a small gap between
the tire and the wheel rim,
then squeeze a small amount
of instant adhesive into the
gap. See the Tip box on the
right for the recommended
technique for applying
the glue.
When the glue is dry, turn the wheel assembly over and
repeat Step 7 for the other side.
While waiting for the tire to dry, use wet and dry paper to
remove the paint from the rims of the wheel (which was
provided in Stage 1). This will help with adhesion.
Insert the wheel into the tire.
Assembling the wheel
Tip
When applying instant
adhesive to the wheel,
follow the order shown
in the photo. This
method will secure
the wheel to the
tire without the tire
becoming distorted.

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Insert the stopper into the hole in the right
servo saver upper arm, as shown.
Engage the hexagonal
projection with the
corresponding recess
in the hole of the servo
saver, as shown.
Hold the servo saver
shaft and insert it into
the servo saver lower
arm. The stopper should
be oriented as shown in
the photograph.
Place the 3mm nut onto the end of the
stopper.
Tighten the nut onto the stopper with
your ngers.
Assembling the servo saver
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Place the servo saver adjuster onto the servo
saver spring.
Remove the servo saver adjuster from the
servo saver shaft.
Turn the lower arm so it is at a right angle to
the upper arm and slot them together.
Check that your servo saver assembly now
resembles the one shown above.
Place the spring over the shaft and into the
recess of the lower servo saver arm.
Holding the end of the shaft with the
hexagonal projection, insert it into the servo
saver hole with the hexagonal recess.

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Separate the upper and lower parts of the
left servo saver, supplied pre-assembled.
You will nd that the hexagonal end of the
upper part ts into a hexagonal hole in the
lower part.
Use the servo saver adjuster to push the
spring in, and screw the adjuster onto the
end of the shaft.
Fit the air pipe onto the air
lter base. If it is dicult to
insert, use a little wet and
dry paper on the inside of
the pipe.
The air lter should now
look like the one shown on
the left.
Fit the air lter cover onto the air lter base and element, as
shown.
Insert the 3 × 10mm self-tapping screw into the hole in the
middle of the air lter cover and tighten slowly with a size 2
Phillips screwdriver.
Now re-insert the upper left servo saver into
the lower. There should not be any gap.
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Assembling the air lter
Tip
If you nd it too hard to screw the
adjuster on by hand, wrap some tissue
around it and then tighten with pliers.
Take care not to overtighten it.
Assembled parts

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Assembling the side mirrors
Knife
Tweezers
Stickers (from Stage 2)
Stage 4
Your parts
Tools and
materials
Aerial
Left side mirror cover
Right side mirror cover
Left side mirror
Right side mirror
Side mirror arms × 2
Side mirror pins × 2
Shock rod assembly
Shock spring spacer
11mm O-ring
3mm O-rings × 2
Stopper ring
2.6mm nut
2.3mm washers × 2
Shock piston
Shock shaft
Shock cap
6.8mm ball end
Shock case
Rear shock spring
Shock spring stopper

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Hold the left side mirror over the left side mirror cover, as shown
above, to identify the projections and holes highlighted by the
red arrows.
Fit the projection on each component into its corresponding
hole on the other component.
Insert the side mirror pin into the hole in the
bottom of the side mirror cover.
Locate the hole in the bottom of the side mirror cover into which
the side mirror pin ts.
There is a hole near the base of the mirror cover into
which the side mirror arm ts. Use the photo to identify
the correct orientation of the two parts.
Press down rmly on the mirror, pushing it into the cover.
Insert one of the side mirror arms into the hole in the base of the
mirror cover.

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Engage the projections and holes of the right side mirror and
the right side mirror cover.
The left side mirror is now complete. If there are any burrs
around the parts, carefully remove them, using a knife.
Press down rmly on the mirror, pushing it into the mirror cover.
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As before, the side mirror arm ts into the hole in the base of the
mirror cover.
Insert the second side mirror arm into the hole in the base of the
mirror cover.
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Locate the hole in the bottom of the side mirror cover into
which the side mirror pin ts.

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Insert the side mirror pin into the hole in the bottom of the side
mirror cover.
With a pair of tweezers, place mirror sticker 4 into the recess of
the left side mirror assembly.
Remove the two mirrors from the sticker sheet provided with
Stage 2. The left mirror is labeled 4 and the right mirror 5.
Flatten the mirror into the recess with your ngertips, pushing
any air bubbles out as you do so. Then repeat Steps 16 and 17
for the assembled right side mirror and mirror sticker 5.
Assembled parts

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Stage 5
12mm shim
6mm O-ring
1510 bearing
Bevel gear shaft
Grease
Beginning the rear differential
Your parts
Tools and
materials
Tweezers
Toothpick
Dierential case
Bevel gear (20T)
Dierential cup joint
Bevel gears (10T) × 2
2.5 × 10.3mm pin

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Place the 1510 ball bearing over the projection on the
dierential case.
Cut a corner from the grease bag and place a small amount of
grease onto the end of a toothpick, or similar.
Apply some grease to
the dierential cup joint.
Insert the joint into the
hole, slowly rotating it
back and forth to spread
the grease.
Place the end of the
joint into the hole of
the projection on the
inside of the bearing.
Place the 6mm O-ring
over the joint on the
inside of the case.
Press the bearing rmly into position on the projection. Make
sure the bearing is aligned with the case.
Apply some grease to the recess in the center of the inside of
the dierential case.
Fitting the bearing onto the dierential case
Assembling the dierential gear