Long term skeleton durability
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I also noticed that they don't seem to use any washers at all. This is why they loosen so fast! Maybe they will improve, sure hope so as their dolls are so very beautiful!
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From now on I won't be able to look at nuts and bolts without getting sick anymore...
Luckily I don't have to screw for a living...
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The seal up went pretty good too. The hole requirement for the elbow repair is a 3 inch incision not bad.
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This is indeed wonderful news and the fact, if I understand it correctly, that the neck, knees, elbows and wrists can be tightened using only an Allen wrench seems really good!
I might work up some courage to make a cut later
I do have permatex silicone at home that I have used for repairing her silicone skin on numerous occasions with good result so not really worried there. I do need to acquire some good quality scalpels though to get a clean cut.
If and when I do the cut I'll be sure to update this thread.
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Strange isn't it? Luckily there are doctors and doll-doctors around to help with that.optical delusion wrote:ok...they are dolls...and not real nor feel pain.....but why did that make me feel like i was watching some surgical video...had the same queasy stomach feeling
I couldn't cut dolls (or humans) so severely. It makes me sick just thinking about it.
But thank you Samara, you are doing amazing work.
But now I know for sure, I need to find other ways.
Like gimpix found one for his Heidi with a Broken foot. So sexy and unique...
But maybe this is just more appealing to me because of my helper syndrome...
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Because you care!optical delusion wrote:ok...their dolls...and not real nor feel pain.....but why did that make me feel like i was watching some surgical video...had the same queasy stomach feeling
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Silly of Sanhui though . Two nuts where there could be one nylon (nyloc) locknut .
Not welding the nuts and bolts costs less than welding them . Sanhui could save money and make them user maintainable. But as others point out , then you might not buy another doll .
Still love her but would a buy another or try a different brand hoping for greater skeletal durability?
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I know this thread is mainly about silicone but my two are TPE which, to a certain extent, is even more difficult to repair owing to a lack of specific glues that work. Anyway, my Ashaki still has fairly tight joints even after over a year. Vivette, on the other hand, has similar loose joint problems! Although technically she is over a year old she sat for six months in her box! Her forward and back movement in her legs is so loose now she doesn’t sit well either but sideways (opening) she is still very stiff! Her midriff movement is also very loose so posing is becoming more and more difficult and I have to be very careful when trying to stand her or she’ll collapse in a heap!
I have recently wondered if, rather than open her up to try to tighten the joints, I could syringe something like red hermatite into the joint area. I’m pretty sure it won’t stick to the TPE owing to the hydrocarbon oils in it but I wonder if it could ‘lock’ around the joint a bit!
Anyway, I feel for you mate! Cheers, Hollows.
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Sounds like being worth a try but probably won't work because thread lockers bond with the metal, they do not just increase the friction between the surfaces.hollows+fentiman wrote:I have recently wondered if, rather than open her up to try to tighten the joints, I could syringe something like red hermatite into the joint area. I’m pretty sure it won’t stick to the TPE owing to the hydrocarbon oils in it but I wonder if it could ‘lock’ around the joint a bit!
It would probably seem to work at first until you start moving that joint again, then the thread locker breaks free and rubs off.
This could however work if you intend to pose your doll in one final pose and let her stay that way like a mannequin.
Otherwise, as long as simple screws are used to hold the joints together and to tighten them, there will be wear in the joints and need for adjustment.
Less with higher precision or better quality parts. But the only real solution to this IMHO would be to use spring-loaded ball joints.
6Ye is already using ball joints (don't know if they are spring-loaded), it's not so hard to do or much more expensive.
If we as customers keep demanding this, other manufactures might start using them eventually too.
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As for silicone, that is much easier to cut and seal as long as the first cut is clean and straight. I’ve done some repairs on one of my DS minis and although I haven’t finished (a repaired joint broke just after I’d sealed it so I gave up) where I’d sealed I thought it was a pretty good! Sadly I have to cut it again in the same place!
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