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Hobby Tech Hands Free Tyre Gluer Another simple, handy piece of equipment. Though not a must have item, unless you end up with more tyre glue on your fingers and hands than around your wheel and tyre, or even in a worse case scenario all across the surface of the latest hot wheel/tyre and insert combo. This comes ready assembled and complete with an adaptor ring to let you use it on 1/12th scale wheels as well. It consists of 4 pieces;- 1&2 The carrier or wheel holder, which is made of two of the pieces, the top and bottom parts of the carrier, 3 Main body with the clamp arms 4 The adaptor for 1/12th scale.
Before you use it for the first time, undo the nut under the main body while holding the arms, this lets you pull the arms back and remove the carrier. Remove the top plate then take out the adaptor ring and put it somewhere safe. Before you build your chosen wheel/insert/tyre combo make sure to clean the wheel and tyre to remove any traces of release agent from them and any extra bits of rubber from the tyre bead. Then assemble them. Next place the wheel into the bottom part of the carrier, with the hole for the axle sitting over the spike
Then place the top piece onto the carrier. This will fit in any of three positions. If you look carefully at the pic above, you can just see a couple of slots in the bottom part of the carrier. These correspond with lugs moulded into the inside of the top plate in line with the cut outs for the arms. Next locate the carrier on top of the domed end of the main body and move the arms back into position so they sit in the cut outs on the top plate Then holding the carrier do up the nut underneath until the carrier is pushed all the way up on the domed part against the arms. This is the action that pulls the tyre bead away from the wheel without actually separating the wheel from the tyre. Apply your tyre glue to 4 points around the rim, it should run around the rim on its own accord providing it is thin enough. Once you have done that release the nut underneath and allow a little time for the glue to set before pulling the arms back and removing the wheel. Set it to one side and do any other wheels you have, this allows enough time for the glue to set properly before you turn them over and do the same to the other side. Remembering to mark inside the wheel what type of tyre and insert you have used. Something else the gluer can be used for is the removal of glued tyres from rims. Put the glued wheel into the gluer as if you were about to glue it together and run some, suitable for the glue you have used, un-bonding agent around the rim, let it soak in and then release the pressure on the tyre. You might have to do this a few times it depends on the effectiveness of the glue you used and the un-bonding agent. Then follow any other instructions that the un-bonding agent might have.
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