Tony Ray’s DH.53 Humming Bird, Руководство пользователя

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This is a small model but don’t underestimate its complexity. It is suggested that this
should not be a first build of a model aircraft. Some prior knowledge would be
helpful. However, I’ve tried to point out any pitfalls and ease the way to making a
successful model of the DH53 Humming Bird.
1. Before you start
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Some items you may find helpful
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A sharp, fine modelling knife or scalpel and additional blades
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Fine nosed pliers or strong tweezers
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A very fine cross head screw driver for miniature screws
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A couple of clear plastic containers for holding small parts. Keep your clear
plastic, takeaway food containers, they’re ideal.
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Pins and a small building board.
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In the main it is recommended to use thin cyano acrylate (super glue) for the
well-fitting joints and thinly spread aliphatic resin (yellow glue) for sheet to
sheet bonds
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A capillary tube extension for the cyano acrylate bottle to reach awkward glue
joints
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A small sanding board (make one by gluing 2 pieces of 1/16 balsa, 3inch x
1.25inch with grain crossed at 90deg. You can stick a different grade of
sandpaper to each side to make a really handy small sanding block)
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A flat building board which can take pins to build on. A5 size is adequate but
somewhat larger will give more room for tools etc.
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Read through this help sheet in conjunction with the pictorial build document.
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There are 6 small circular magnets in the kit. To ease things later on, mark them all on
the same pole before you start. I found the easiest way was to put them all together and
mark one magnet face with a “sharpie” pen. Then remove that magnet and mark the
next one… and so on. This means that you can easily identify which way round they
need to be during the build.
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Check each “Step” before you start it. Study the photos in the pictures
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Identify all the parts for each step and remove only these from the relevant sheet by
cutting through the tabs in the laser cuts around each item. Use a plastic container to
hold them until needed in the step.
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Any offcuts containing other pieces (like the centre of a former etc.) can be stored in
another plastic container 
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Remember, the parts are extremely small and leave very little room for recovery if you
get things wrong. However, the standard of the kit makes it less likely that you will make
that mistake in the first place.