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Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 3:00 pm
by hollows+fentiman
Well done Sofos! Emms has a nice neat battle scar there!

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 4:09 pm
by Up2myneck
Hi Sofos,

I'm glad you managed to fix up Emma!
I was feeling your pain :cry:
That work looked quite horrific! I'm not that brave enough to attempt this kind of repair on my dolls yet, although one day - I might have to :|

regards,
Up2

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:08 pm
by Sofos
hollows+fentiman wrote:Well done Sofos! Emms has a nice neat battle scar there!

Thanks. Emma will wear it with pride :)
Up2myneck wrote:Hi Sofos,

I'm glad you managed to fix up Emma!
I was feeling your pain :cry:
That work looked quite horrific! I'm not that brave enough to attempt this kind of repair on my dolls yet, although one day - I might have to :|

regards,
Up2
Thanks. I did hesitate a while before making the first cut... But it actually went well.

Just did both her knees just now.
Much bigger nut but still not welded. It seems they use imperial and not metric nuts so my tools didn't fit. I used a normal wrench and managed to tighted it but it was not easy. Before I do any more I will get a socket wrench kit for nuts measured in inches. Not so easy to find here because Sweden is really keen on the metric system...
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One elbow and two knees fixed so far :)

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:19 pm
by Muninn
Well done on the surgery, you're certainly more brave than I would be...
Sofos wrote: Much bigger nut but still not welded. It seems they use imperial and not metric nuts so my tools didn't fit. I used a normal wrench and managed to tighted it but it was not easy. Before I do any more I will get a socket wrench kit for nuts measured in inches. Not so easy to find here because Sweden is really keen on the metric system...
You should take a look at sites like eBay in the UK, although we're 99% metric, there's still a lot of use for imperial wrenches. Have a look for tools for working on classic cars, for example.

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:34 pm
by hollows+fentiman
Yeah, they’re possibly what we call A/F sizes which does seem a bit strange! I’ll check what sizes might be equivalent tomorrow (too dark to find my tools tonight!)!

Cheers, Hollows.

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 5:43 pm
by Hanna
Oooh, Sorry I missed all this. Well.....not that sorry it looks a bit gruesome. Oh dear I feel your pain Emms, that's major surgery.
Congratulations on your handywork Mister Sofos. :thumbs_up:
Fortunately when I had my surgery I was off my face on anaesthetic so I didn't feel a thing.

Get well soon Emms, we want you back soon. And strong. :D

Love

Hanna

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 6:17 pm
by Liz_xxx
Replace the nuts with lock nuts such as nyloc , or , use lock washers such as star washers or spring washers . Or loctite .

Regards

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 6:17 pm
by Liz_xxx
Easier said than done when you don't know the thread size I guess

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2017 7:01 pm
by samara78
Good work! Happy they quit welding them on. I went from rating sanhuis larger at a 6 to rating them an 8 out of 10!

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:04 am
by Sofos
Again, thanks everyone! :D

Finding imperial wrenches online is not a problem. A bit more problematic in a store. But I will definitely get one before doing anything more now. With a socket wrench you can keep the cut even shorter too!

@Liz_xxx
I did apply some blue loctite. But I never unscrewed the nut first so I'm not sure the loctite got into the threading properly. Perhaps a mistake. Time will tell.

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Fri Dec 22, 2017 10:06 am
by Sofos
For reference.

I believe the elbow was a 11/32 nut and the knee a 5/8.
Not 100% sure though.

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Wed Dec 27, 2017 6:48 am
by Wight
You might try maritime shops for accessories. Sailboat rigging systems run with metric, imperial, "and then there's the French!"

Re: Long term skeleton durability

Posted: Tue Jan 02, 2018 2:58 pm
by Sofos
Just a quick update that the tightening worked :D
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And I have now also acquired a socket wrench kit with standard "inches" sizes for future surgeries! :)