[Slicewing09]

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Originally Posted by Rvallette

I had that problem and it was easy for me to fix.

First you have to take a Hair drier and carefuly warm the arm. You can do this with hot water too.

Then pop out the forearm from the elbow. You need to do this carefuly, dont rush this part.

The elbow is like a revoltech joint. In the middle of the two pieces that form the elbow there's a gap. Inside this gap-canal or corridor ( sorry 'bout my english) theres a tiny piece of plastic that connects the piece that broke off, and the other side is like a ring shaped plastic that connects to the center of the revoltech joint.

You have to separate the revoltech joint in order to glue the piece in an appropiate way.

This part when you separate the two pieces of the revoltech-joint was the most difficult part to do, and easily take me more than 20 minutes to do without damaging the joint. I used to do this a hobby knife ( Im a gunpla-macross-kit modeler)

You glue this part that broke with super glue, cianoacrylate.

Then you put carefully all togeter.

Hope this helps

Its not difficult, you just need to be patient, or you can ask a friend with hobby-building skills that assist you in this surgery.

Saludos

Thank you VERY much. I will definitely give this a try once I work up some courage (I really, really don't want to break this guy more than he is already), or I may find someone else to do it for me if I pansy out. Out of curiosity, how do I go about bonding the joint back together safely? I've never done any repairs this extensive before, forgive the questions.

Regardless though, thanks tons for the help. I've been asking around various forums and message boards for weeks and you're legitimately the first one to help me out.

Also, I didn't mention it, but one of his arms likes to come off at the forearm as well (that PAK quality is just shining through in this thread). Thought it was funny that that ended up being a step to fix the elbow pads. But, with that being said, any way to jam it back in there nice and tight, or am I forever stuck with a generally loose arm? I coated the peg in some vinyl floor finish, and that extra friction helps, but it's still looser than normal. Bothers me a tad.