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I keep seeing used dolls on the website that i'm interested in and then find out they don't have foot bolts. For me that's a deal breaker. Is it feasible to retroactively add foot bolts to dolls that never had them?

That very easy, add directly on the foot is OK

Hiya, well it's certainly feasible as I've done it with a vintage WM155DD. In that case I could feel that there was a v shaped hole at the rear of the foot plate so I made a small incision and with the use of a couple of large washers I was able to bolt a small furniture pad into the heel. I didn't bother with the other two points on the foot as the weight is mainly taken by the heel bolt and the 155DD is light enough. I have a feeling that a similar age YL148D has the same foot plate so I may do it again. I suspect this particular plate was being used at the Jinsan factory in 2016 but I think they changed it the following year in which case you would have to drill a hole in the foot plate and as its stainless steel that's going to be a bit of a chore but no doubt possible. Of course to stand the knee and hip joints need to be of a decent tension and ideally the ankle bolt too.

Arthur1960 wrote:Of course to stand the knee and hip joints need to be of a decent tension and ideally the ankle bolt too.

Yeah, that's another concern.

I also suck at DIY.