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Grrr... I don't understands repairs!

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The last couple of days I've been trying to repair large holes and small holes in Ty using Indigo's tpe repair kit. My doll came from 1AM, so I am certain the tpe is good quality.

However, every damn time I use tpe paste to finish filling in a plugged hole as per the hand book, the sealing fails and the hole reopens to its original size. Please help!
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Here is a photo of what I am talking about. Please keep in mind, I've never done repairs like this and I'm horribly poor. I had barely enough to afford the kit and have to use utensils from around the house.

This is the underside of her foot. That crack in the center was sealed partially and allowed to cure overnight. I added some paste and it reopened.
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Post by matt gloss »

Hi Kendoll16,can I ask if you cleaned the area first before the repair?
I am new to this myself but from what I have read isopropryl alcohol should be used to remove any contaminants.
Please wait for someone with experience to confirm this before proceeding.
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Hello KenDoll16.

On 30th August you wrote me a PM about the repair of armpits of your doll.
I asked you for pictures to provide you recommendations.

Without waiting for my answer you started a repair at the foot of your doll.
You didn't tell me that you have to do a repair at that location too.

TPE paste is liquid and after the usage of the solvent Preparer as primer a filling with TPE paste looks like this (without the smoothing afterwards):
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Your repair looks completely different.
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There are different colors of TPE inside the repair !
Yellowish and natural TPE is mixed.

What I see from the picture you made it absolutely wrong and not according the handbook.
And you used material that isn't from the repair kit.

And you didn't do the recommended training with the TPE test piece that comes with the kit.
It is mentioned in the handbook several times to make the test repair.

Now you are asking the community for help instead of me.
It was luck that I found your article.
You didn't ask me.

You know that I life on the other side of the planet and that I need time to answer PM's and emails.
If you do not have time to wait for my answer, you are fully responsible for what you do.

KenDoll16, honestly, I do not understand the way you act.

Do you want my help or not ?

You wrote: "I had barely enough to afford the kit and have to use utensils from around the house."
What utensils did you use ???

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Sorry Indigo, we spoke about about the foot repairs a while back...
Indigo20 wrote:Feet repair:

I see that some dirt is inside and around the holes.
Use mineral oil and Q-tips to remove the dirt.

That repair can be done in the same way as described under
6. Repair of a breakthrough to the metal skeleton

If you have spare TPE material you can cut an exact piece in diameter, but not in high, that fits in the hole.
Otherwise take the TPE test piece from the repair kit.
TPE must be cut with a scissors, not with a sharp blade.
If you have some TPE glue that would be perfect to melt that TPE piece inside.

On top of the TPE piece you are doing a filling with TPE paste as described.
Finally you are able to smooth everything.

"Preparer" can also be used for smoothing as it makes TPE liquid.
Therewith I do the smoothing of large areas.
There is no material tension at the sole of the foot, so you can use "Preparer" for smoothing.
But be careful, "Preparer" is much stronger than "Smoother".
Please do a test with the TPE test piece first to see, how it works and compare it with the smoothing capacity of "Smoother".
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The feet repair looks worse, but honestly, that is very easy.
Since you had mention that the feet will be easier to repair I wanted to work on those while I awaited a response about the armpits.

I followed your recommendations and used spare tpe donated to me by another member (I wanted to save the tpe piece in the kit for the armpits if needed). Since this is under her foot I am less concerned in how it looks and more concerned with the feel and plugging up the holes.

Below is an updated image of her foot.
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As you can see the crack has been filled after all. I didn't realize I hadn't plugged that part of her foot so any paste I used just seeped into her skeleton. Parts of the hole had been filled with offcolor tpe and the dark spots are areas that I couldn't remove all of the dirt. That is okay with me. Now it seems that I'll need to trim and smooth the excess tpe (I'm guessing).

I apologize for being difficult, Indigo. I really appreciate your help and your kit is life saving. These repairs are just not easy for someone as amateur and impatient as me. Thank you for responding.

As for tools, I have tweezers and a set of shears because I do not have medical scissors. Then of course I have the syringes, containers, and all else supplied in your kit.
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Re: Grrr... I don't understands repairs!

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Hello KenDoll16,

thank you for your reply.

I was irritated because of the different TPE colors and the way it looks like.
Now I understand that you want to keep the TPE material from the kit for the armpit repairs and that you used additional TPE from a member for the foot repair.
You understand, I couldn't know that.

And please understand, for me, repairs have to look perfect.
I know that with the repair kit perfect repairs are possible.
I do repairs for my dolls and for customers sending their dolls to me.
Perfect is my standard (that may sound a bit sick, but a customer expects exactly that).

KenDoll16, these are situations you should talk to me before.
It is no problem to include more TPE material and additional stuff to a parcel.
Therewith you are able to make everything perfect and to bring your doll back to her usual condition.

It is better to write me PM's with pictures of made repair steps.
Therewith I'm able to copy each of your explained steps and pictures to my records as a documentation.
And I can use your pictures to explain the next steps.

Before we do the next steps, I have to ask you about the skin color of your doll :!:

You used yellowish TPE from your friend and the TPE paste in natural skin color from my repair kit.
For me it looks like both TPE colors do not match the skin color of your doll.
Are you sure that your Jinsan TPE doll has the skin color natural ?
For me your doll looks more yellowish / dark yellowish.

You said your doll is from 1AM.
Please tell me what doll and skin color you ordered.
I must be sure that your doll is a Jinsan doll.

Please write me a PM and I would like to please you for a picture of the TPE test piece in skin color natural from the repair kit placed on your doll.
Please make that picture without flash from the camera.
Daylight would be the best.
Maybe we have to switch to an other TPE skin color for the armpit repair.

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