Bending Toes Back Using 1500W Heat Gun
Bending Toes Back Using 1500W Heat Gun
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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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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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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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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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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- 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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- 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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Does she...or doesn't she? (A slogan used by Clairol)
My dolls
Reminder to self: Still more work to do on my albums.
First photo shoot of Sandra, a Sanhui 145 cm lady doll.
[thumb]http://dollforum.com/forum/download/file.php?id=196256&t=1[/thumb]
Fun photos of my JM 110cm, Angie.
http://dollforum.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=196&t=74121
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Thank you for documenting your success
Glad it's worked out for you