Do you have any pictures? The precarious part is this: when the weld breaks it takes part of the hip bone with it leaving a hole in the hip bone. This weakens the hip bone and your drilling though it also weakens it. The JB weld is probably not going to stop the hip bone from completely separating as mine did after the first surgery. For the second surgery I inserted a solid metal bar into the completely separated hip bone and for the third surgery, I used a captive shackle to hold the spine and hip bone together. Although she'll never free stand again, she can still sit and the loose hip motion more than makes up for thisSCR9000 wrote: ↑Thu Mar 14, 2024 2:40 am My doll broker her spine a little over a month after I purchased. I recieved no word from the seller, so distraught, I cut my doll in half about two inches above the belly button. the spine break was at the weld where the hip tube and spine join. it was a bad weld.
I am going to wait a bit and see if she holds a bit more and then finish getting her back together.
My advice is do not seal her up too soon because you'll need the room to scrape off the crumbling JB weld to fit in a solid metal bar after the hip bone separates completely.