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Get yourself a decent soldering iron, or get a friendly club member to put your car together for you.

Look at your chassis. Lay it on a flat surface (Lucky Bob Setup block from SCD or a flat bit of ply or glass), and check it lies flat, tweaking if necessary until it looks straight. Now get your axle and bearings and solder the bearings into the uprights so that the axle turns freely. Put a gear on the axle and the pinion on the motor, soldering the pinion carefully onto the motor. Lay the motor flat in the chassis and ease it towards the gear until there is just perceptible backlash – you should be able to feel but not see the free play. Screw or solder the motor to the bracket. Tin and bend and solder a piece of 18 gauge piano wire to reinforce the motor bracket to the chassis upright.

Secure the guide to the chassis with the nut provided, fit the leadwires to the guide and install the braids. Note that this is a bit easier that the homeset arrangement!

Make a 16g piano wire axle and fit the front wheels, appropriately spaced with the kit spacers and the 16g brass tube. Secure using the pathetic springs in the kit, or make and solder on some 16g brass tube collars.

Cut two bits of 22g pin tube to the width of the chassis plus a smidge, then pass through the holes in the side of the chassis and solder in place to form four body mounting holes (two on each side!). Fit the rear wheels using the appropriate allen key, ensuring there is just perceptible sideplay in the axle – feel but not see again.

Mask and spray the body on the inside and use a fine permanent marker to highlight panel lines, race numbers and intakes etc on the outside. Secure to the chassis with slightly bent dressmaking pins thru the pintubes, reinforcing the holes in the body with cloth tape.

That’s it! Can’t wait till clubnight to try it out.

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