Introduction
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1.1 Disposal instructions for electronic equipment
Do not discard old electronic devices in municipal trash.
For disposal at end of life, please return this product to
an authorized local electronic waste disposal service
or contact the nearest Kistler sales ofce for return
instructions.
1.2 Organization of the manual
The purpose of this manual is to serve as a reference do-
cument for those technicians working assembling or wor-
king on the Kistler THOR-50M DTI dummy. The focus of
this document is to provide the technician with a guide in
the disassembly and reassembly of the dummy as neces-
sary to remove and replace the DTI instrumentation wit-
hout damaging the sensors, wiring or the dummy itself. In
most cases, re-assembly is simply the dis-assembly pro-
cedure in reverse. Therefore a re-assembly procedure is
not included unless there is particular care needed for a
given assembly.
There are several other important documents that the
user should also become familiar with. These are noted in
chapter 2.6 of this document. This document is meant to
be used in conjunction with the NHTSA THOR-50M Dra-
wing Package and the NHTSA THOR-50M Qualication
Manual. Each section describes in detail the components
required for each assembly, the order of assembly if ne-
cessary as well as special notes and tips where approp-
riate.
In addition to the typical set of tools necessary to work on
the ATD, it is highly recommended that a digital camera
be used frequently when disassembling an ATD with ins-
trumentation installed. The reason for using a camera to
document the disassembly of the ATD is that since the in-
strumentation set can be unique to each ATD, the wiring is
necessarily also unique to each ATD. The simplest way to
document the routing of the wiring, location of tie wraps,
grounding straps and connectors, is with a picture.