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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Jul 30, 2013 1:22:33 GMT -5
Last week I had the delight of having my two little nephews over visiting for the next couple of days until they turn home to South Carolina. They both are wrestling fans so naturally they like to wrestle, play with the wrestling figures, collect WWE merchandise etc. Ok fine, but this is where the issue at hand comes into play, so while I had stepped out of the house for a few hours, I had given them quite a hand full of figures to play with so the wouldn't bore themselves with the dreamcast drone which is the television. But I had left out the valuable figures out of the bunch in a separate location where I had thought they would never look. Now in my mind I had thought that everything was going fine and there was nothing that could have possibly occurred. Come to find out when I return, the foot peg of my Deluxe Classic Superstar Rock had be ripped off and the ball on the top of the foot that connects it to the leg had also been removed. This nearly drove me to absolute insanity but after a couple minutes of analyzing the situation, I came to the conclusion that children have an act of playing around and accidents do happen. But the main problem still lays ahead, is there any possible way to obtain the same amount of foot articulation while placing the foot back it's original intended position without gorilla gluing it back into place? Sorry there aren't any reference pictures atm, currently the figure is with a friend who told me he could try to fix it. I should have it back within the next couple days. Thanks for reading!  |
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jul 30, 2013 7:21:04 GMT -5
Man that would piss me right off, but I'd cool down and probably react just like you did.
This situation doesn't seem too bad. If I read correctly, there is part of the foot joint still in the leg?
The foot joint is made like a shoe, with a stalk coming out of it. The top of the stalk has a little wider sort of cone shape which allows it to pop into the leg and stay there. All you'd have to do is remove the remnant of the joint from the leg, find a donor foot (black laced boot from another DA figure) and heat it up a little in hot water and it should pop in really easily.
Good luck!
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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Jul 30, 2013 11:50:17 GMT -5
Man that would piss me right off, but I'd cool down and probably react just like you did. This situation doesn't seem too bad. If I read correctly, there is part of the foot joint still in the leg? The foot joint is made like a shoe, with a stalk coming out of it. The top of the stalk has a little wider sort of cone shape which allows it to pop into the leg and stay there. All you'd have to do is remove the remnant of the joint from the leg, find a donor foot (black laced boot from another DA figure) and heat it up a little in hot water and it should pop in really easily. Good luck! I may have to take another look at the figure but I don't believe there's any remnant of the foot joint in the leg unfortunately. I suppose this method wouldn't work in this case? Regardless, I really appreciate you taking the time to help me out with this. |
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Post by TheXtremisT on Jul 30, 2013 13:59:10 GMT -5
No problem dude.
Well you don't really want anything to remain in the leg so this sounds like a good thing, maybe I just read your post wrong.
If you could post a picture that would deffo help.
It doesn't sound like a major problem, you should be able to fix it with a donor figure's shoe part.
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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Aug 1, 2013 21:58:37 GMT -5
No problem dude. Well you don't really want anything to remain in the leg so this sounds like a good thing, maybe I just read your post wrong. If you could post a picture that would deffo help. It doesn't sound like a major problem, you should be able to fix it with a donor figure's shoe part. Portion of the foot that was removed.  The foot disconnected from the leg  Close up of interior   |
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Post by TheXtremisT on Aug 2, 2013 6:07:13 GMT -5
Ah ok yep that's how I suspected it.
Ok so the foot has a stalk which finishes with a cone-like shape on top, which allows it to pop right into the leg.
It seems to have snapped off inside the leg.
You're going to have to remove the remnant of the foot 'stalk' from the leg first. Then as long as you haven't damaged the leg by widening the hole for the foot stalk to go in, you can replace the foot with another from a DA figure with black boots - piece of cake!
Seriously it's not too big of a deal.
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Post by /X Metal Sorenges x "Mac Oh J~ on Aug 2, 2013 13:03:00 GMT -5
Ah ok yep that's how I suspected it. Ok so the foot has a stalk which finishes with a cone-like shape on top, which allows it to pop right into the leg. It seems to have snapped off inside the leg. You're going to have to remove the remnant of the foot 'stalk' from the leg first. Then as long as you haven't damaged the leg by widening the hole for the foot stalk to go in, you can replace the foot with another from a DA figure with black boots - piece of cake! Seriously it's not too big of a deal. That's really good to hear. Thanks again, Xtremist. |
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Post by TheXtremisT on Aug 2, 2013 17:04:13 GMT -5
No problem love
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