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Title: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: tahra on January 14, 2017, 16:01:18
Ok, I am feeling hapless.

Other legs, I manage. These... Meh. Is there a big trick?

(http://playkingdoms.com/temp/playmoproc/howtopopkidskirt.jpg)

(can you tell there were some tries already  :-\)
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: cheng on January 15, 2017, 03:28:03
looks like one-way slots (into the skirt)...if nobody has the answer and you still want to change/examine her feet....just take a pair of pliers and firmly pull out the skeleton like you are pulling out a tooth  ;D
with luck both pieces can still be used
otherwise its better to spoil the skeleton than the skirt (i can see those screwdriver marks!)
but i doubt the 2 will break...i've removed so many kids' legs (and have broken legs to proof...never broken skeletons)
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: tahra on January 15, 2017, 13:28:33
Quote from: cheng on January 15, 2017, 03:28:03
otherwise its better to spoil the skeleton than the skirt (i can see those screwdriver marks!)
but i doubt the 2 will break...

That is not the case here, since one is basically useless without the other.. I have removed some (usually by accident) from normal (as in non-skirts) legs, but these... I just don't manage.

I was hoping someone knew a simple trick to it... :(
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: cheng on January 15, 2017, 18:29:31
but if nobody has a safer way...use pliers...if the frame breaks...if you can wait :P i'll send you a few...i've no use for kids ;D
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: tahra on January 15, 2017, 19:01:09
Quote from: cheng on January 15, 2017, 18:29:31
but if nobody has a safer way...use pliers...if the frame breaks...if you can wait :P i'll send you a few...i've no use for kids ;D

Problem is... the frame must match the legs. Not easy peasy as it may seem.  :(
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: cheng on January 16, 2017, 11:48:29
Quote from: tahra on January 15, 2017, 19:01:09
Problem is... the frame must match the legs. Not easy peasy as it may seem.  :(

oops...dont know if i have a white frame, nevermind I'll just pop over and just jerk it out with my hands :lol:
....ask your dad to pull it out....at worst he'll have to buy you the set it came in  ;D
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: Klickteryx on January 20, 2017, 09:34:55
I guess you're trying to get the feet out.
I tried to take the frame out but couldn't. It's in a lot tighter than it is with the legs.
I got the feet off though.

What I did was take a thick bit of wire, bend it, and push it into the slot that appears when you bend the frame over. So when the frame is bent over a slot appears at the back between the frame and skirt. You can use something like wire or any reasonable strong curved thing and push it into the slot. The peg holding the legs in isn't that strong and the legs pop out.
The wire I used was from an old electrical cord and is about 1.2mm thick.
Slot is about 2mm high so any wire around 1- 1.5mm would work. A trimmed bit of plastic would probably work too.

I'll add that I just pushed into the general area of the peg and it pushed the feet out. It does take some finger strength, just did it again to make sure it works each time.
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: tahra on January 20, 2017, 10:27:09

Thanks - I will try that!

You are of course correct, that is the point.. I find it pointless to remove the frame from the legs in the kids, since they should be a match.
Title: Re: Help: how to remove frame from kid skirts?
Post by: Klickteryx on January 20, 2017, 19:11:50
Something really flat and stiff like a very small screwdriver might work too.