This latest repair has me kinda proud of myself. So I figured I'd share it here so I can get laughed at, and brought back down to earth! I bought this in the for sale thread ($40): $2 and 1.5 hours later He came with all the pieces from the arm joint (broken shaft, spring, locking gear, and screw). I ran a longer screw threw the base of the arm and ground it as flat as I could get it, and sealed it with gorilla glue. Then I recessed the back to make sure it folds over flush. I couldn't find a screw with a small enough head so I ground it flat, and scraped out plastic from the "armpit" so it can fold flat when transforming. This is the only position my work is viewable from. Here he is all put back together now So what do you think of my handy work? I'm thinking he will be my prime candidate for trying the wing/leg mod.
very nice! Good job! Just be careful with using gorilla glue on your TFs because it can expand and crack otherwise functioning parts.
Thanks. Actually thats exactly why I used gorilla glue there. So it would fill any play in the screw hole. The screw got damn hot when I was grinding it down, and loosened up the whole a little bit. The gorilla glue fixed that right up.
Alright, you seem to know what you're doing. I just thought I'd give you a warning in case you hadn't considered it. I'd hate to see a repair go wrong, especially on a masterpiece figure. (although I think 40 is a bit steep for a broken figure)
I appreciate the effort. As for the price enh... He was complete with box. The sale price was $30 + shipping, and the seller sent it USPS Priority.
Nice job. But yeah, I wish someone had warned me about Gorilla Glue before I used it. I did the leg swap on my Alt. Prowl, then decided I liked it better the other way because the panels in his legs that open up wouldn't sit flush in alt mode. So I switched his legs back. Noticed one leg was loose as hell at the not-quite-knee joint and found the peg that attaches the lower leg to the upper leg had broken. Used some gorilla glue (without a clamp, too, ouch!)... screwed that piece up real good... luckily, since I didn't clamp it, the glue didn't hold it together too well... so I pulled it off and tried to super glue it... not realizing how much material I was actually adding between the two broken pieces. The glue wouldn't hold, cause there were no flush pieces to hold together... so I gave up. Now, that side panel just won't sit right. I'm gonna have to just get another one that I feel comfortable transforming one of these days. Mine still looks good, if you don't look for flaws, but since I know it's there, it bugs me. Plus his leg is loose as hell. Yeah, I learned my Gorilla Glue lesson.
Gotta luff busted Screamers. I snagged a WM one with a cracked wing joint, and all it cost me was a deluxe Animated Prime. XP I wish I had a Greenscream, though. =(