One of the two floor spacers is shown clamped inside the end, above. Note how it has been placed adjacent to one side of the car so its bottom edge is parallel to the bot- tom of the car. It is set above the bottom of the car side to allow for the thickness of the car floor. When correctly positioned the floor spacers are glued in place. A styrene rectangle has been cut diagonally (right top) to create a pair of side reinforcement pieces. Its length is a little shorter than the inside length of the body, while its width be- fore cutting is ¹/₄″ wider than the inside width of the car. Looking from the bottom (right, middle) the first side reinforcement piece has been attached to tops of both floor spacers at the ends and to the side it- self. After the other reinforcement piece is in place (below) the two pieces are glued to- gether where they overlap. The pieces are approximately midway up the inside the car.
less than the inside length of the car (just so that it easily drops in place) and approximately ¹/₄″ wider than its inside width. Make a pencil mark on one end of this piece about ³/₁₆″ narrower than the width of the car, measuring up from the bottom right corner. Now mark the op- posite end in a similar manner but measure down from the upper left cor- ner. Cut the piece of styrene from one mark to the other to create a pair of equally-sized, wedged-shaped pieces as shown. These will be the pieces that re- inforce the sides. With the car oriented roof side up, position one reinforcing piece inside the body with its longer end resting on top of one of the floor spacers. Push it tight- ly against the inside corner of the car and tack it in place with a drop of cyanoacrylate in the corner only. When that has cured, add a drop of adhesive to the opposite (shorter) end, again only at the corner, to bond it in place. Be sure the reinforcing piece sits tight inside the corner. If any dried cyanoacrylate cement inside the carbody interferes with that, clip off the corner of the rein- forcing piece for clearance. Next, lightly push the car side against the length of the reinforcing piece and run cyanoacrylate cement
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along the rest of the joint. This will en- sure that the side stays straight and does not warp.
When the joint is dry, place the other reinforcing piece inside the body with its long end against the opposite end of the car and follow the same procedure as with the first piece. Again, if the side of the car is slightly warped, glue the cor- ners first, then eliminate the warping by
pushing the side tight against the rein- forcing piece. Finally, glue the two pieces of styrene together at their overlapping joint. Use styrene cement for this. At this point you are ready to contin- ue with the rest of the construction of the kit. When you are ready to glue the floor in place, it will drop in place against the floor spacers, exactly up where it should be.
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