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Bending Toes Back Using 1500W Heat Gun

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Can someone advise me or point me to a link explaining how toes/foot can be bent back to a normal position using a heat gun? I have a heat gun, but don't really know how to use it to affect this repair.

If I just use my fingers, and push the foot down just above where the toes meet the foot, that puts the toes into the correct position and angle. But I fear that if I simply apply heat to that area, it will just melt and compress the TPE in that area, instead of *bending* that area to point the toes into the correct position. I have applied constant pressure to the foot at this point for an entire week, at room temperature, but the TPE always just flexes back to its original bent/unnatural/toes-pointing-up-at-30-degrees-angle position. So heat was recommended by the vendor.

So how do I get the section just above the toes to *bend*, instead of melt, to reposition the toes? Also wondering if I should use a liquid or cloth to protect the foot while I blow heat on it?
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Added a photo. After a test run with the heat gun on a doused-with-water spare piece of TPE, my confidence is low. Additional concerns are:

1) Toxic fumes from the TPE?
2) risk of burn marks on TPE?

The smoke alarm in my apartment also turned on briefly :(
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Please stop trying to use heat gun with TPE material in door, is very very dangerous thing to do!(especially indoor in a apartment when air don't cycle that well).
What exactly is the cause of the bent? It looks like its the metal skeleton is bent inside. Please provide more picture for different angle so others could give you better advise.
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I'm curious about this too, as my dolls toes were bent sideways upon arrival, and have not straigtened out on their own over time. Would really llike to fix them.

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Get some rubber gloves and get cloth gloves for liners. Place the cloth gloves in the rubber gloves. Heat a pot of water to boiling. Wearing the gloves, dip a towel into the water; then, apply the towel to the feet. After the feet, or toes, have had a chance to warm, hold them how you want them using the wet, heated towel.

This method will likely require several passes and take a time. I assume you have a tub to work with.

I'm sure there are other good approaches.
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Thanks for your responses - I don't plan to use the heat gun ever again - also, the vendor gave me inadequate instructions and safety warnings for its use.

I have, however, had great success using a variation of the hot towel technique (which was in fact recommended by a different person at the vendor): I soaked the feet in a pot full of hot tap water for two 15-minute periods (30 minutes total) over the course of three different nights. This has bent the toes - actually, the front part of the flesh of the feet - back down to almost the exact, proper, vertical position.

(was afraid to boil or microwave the water, since I thought it might be too hot - i had no real idea how hot the water should be, so just thought the hottest possible tap water was the safest way to go....)

Re: the cause of the foot bends, the vendor asserts it happened during shipment; however, they do not have photos to prove this. The feet were very much in the interior of the shipping box, and the box showed no exterior damage. I think it happened right out of the mold, but there's no proof either way. It's not actually the toes themselves that are bent. It's the front part of the fleshy part of the foot. So that's where I have to push down, to align the toes into the proper position.

In the photos, I'm just using gravity to push the front part of each foot down, using the Eucerin bottle to put weight on the front part of the foot - the weight of that Eucerin bottle (and a similar small dispenser of anti-bacterial soap) seemed to provide the right amount of weight and pressure, with a size and diameter ("footprint") appropriate to exactly where I wanted to put the pressure.

I also used rubber bands to bend some of the toes inwards towards the big toes, because some are flaying outwards - I plan to do a couple of more treatments to tighten-up and straighten-out the toes, especially on the left foot.
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I prepped the left foot before soaking, by pulling the two middle toes towards the big toe with rubber-band tension. I would do the same with the outer two toes on the next soak. I need to do this again because the toes are not all straight yet.
I prepped the left foot before soaking, by pulling the two middle toes towards the big toe with rubber-band tension. I would do the same with the outer two toes on the next soak. I need to do this again because the toes are not all straight yet.
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This is the soak I did on each foot for 2x15minutes = 30 minutes, on three different nights. Usually i got the foot to go deeper into the pot, and I try to angle the foot down so mostly only the toes are soaking.
This is the soak I did on each foot for 2x15minutes = 30 minutes, on three different nights. Usually i got the foot to go deeper into the pot, and I try to angle the foot down so mostly only the toes are soaking.
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The weight and contact point of the Eucerin bottle are what are forcing the front of the foot down, at the right point, position, and pressure during the hot-tap-water soak. Notice I'm pushing the front of the foot down, not the toes, and I don't touch the big toe - that one is fine already (and has the wire inside it).
The weight and contact point of the Eucerin bottle are what are forcing the front of the foot down, at the right point, position, and pressure during the hot-tap-water soak. Notice I'm pushing the front of the foot down, not the toes, and I don't touch the big toe - that one is fine already (and has the wire inside it).
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This was either before or after the Eucerin bottle was applying the pressure. Another view of how I used rubber bands to pull the four toes into a straight position while being soaked/heated.
This was either before or after the Eucerin bottle was applying the pressure. Another view of how I used rubber bands to pull the four toes into a straight position while being soaked/heated.
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After soaking for 30 minutes, I kept the pressure on, while the ends of the feet cooled, to prevent them from flexing back into the non-flat bad position. I would leave them like this for maybe an hour or so, until the feet cooled back to room temperature.
After soaking for 30 minutes, I kept the pressure on, while the ends of the feet cooled, to prevent them from flexing back into the non-flat bad position. I would leave them like this for maybe an hour or so, until the feet cooled back to room temperature.
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Final result - I was pleasantly surprised. The left foot toes are pointing down at the 6 o'clock position in this photo. They have since rotated back to a 5 o'clock position, so want to treat them again to force them back to a straight position. But this procedure pretty much totally fixed the "toes pointing up in the air" problem.
Final result - I was pleasantly surprised. The left foot toes are pointing down at the 6 o'clock position in this photo. They have since rotated back to a 5 o'clock position, so want to treat them again to force them back to a straight position. But this procedure pretty much totally fixed the "toes pointing up in the air" problem.
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Thank you for the documentation.
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Thank you d011user. This information is very helpful. I will use it straighten out my own dolls toes. (*Added to my to-do list.)

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Nicely done :thumbs_up:

Thank you for documenting your success

Glad it's worked out for you

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