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Creative => How-To => Topic started by: bonniebeth on December 23, 2010, 04:23:41
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Another question. ;D
I have an old silver ranch http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3768 from my childhood. The building is steck, and over time, the joints where the walls join to the corner pieces and two-sided connectors have loosened up considerably. so much that they won't stay together at all, they just completely fall apart. Has anyone had any success finding a way to make them fit more tightly?
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Another question. ;D
I have an old silver ranch http://playmodb.org/cgi-bin/showinv.pl?setnum=3768 from my childhood. The building is steck, and over time, the joints where the walls join to the corner pieces and two-sided connectors have loosened up considerably. so much that they won't stay together at all, they just completely fall apart. Has anyone had any success finding a way to make them fit more tightly?
Heat is the cure again. Heat the slotted building parts with a hair dryer set on hot, moving it along the entire length of the slotted part. When heated enough, squeeze the sides of the slots together with padded forceps, & let cool.
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Cool. I'll borrow a hair dryer and work on it.
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Cool. I'll borrow a hair dryer and work on it.
Not on cool, on hot! :lol: I did a funny :giggle:!
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You can use also something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_tape
The silver one could be to thick. Use the transparent one. Put it on the "noses" from the walls. ;)
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I've always had the opposite problem - getting Steck to come apart!
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Not on cool, on hot! :lol: I did a funny :giggle:!
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You can use also something like this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotch_tape
The silver one could be to thick. Use the transparent one. Put it on the "noses" from the walls. ;)
Why didn't i think of that? ??? That's a very simple solution, and a lot safer!
I've always had the opposite problem - getting Steck to come apart!
yes, that's the problem I have with my other steck. I only have two steck buildings in my whole collection. :-[
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Why didn't i think of that? ??? That's a very simple solution, and a lot safer!
SAFER!? :hmm: I thought you were becoming a customiser,...painting, & custom buildings, etc., ???? Always try to exercise permanent solutions to PM problems not temporary ones that will need constant redo's. :no:
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You can always use a couple spots of hot glue, or Blue Tack for other temporary fixes, or super glue & Epoxy for permanent fixes. But to graduate to customizer, try to correct the defect so it functions naturally ;)!
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Of so safer = bad. :P I'll try to remember that. :lol:
it's kind of funny-- when I was a kid, I was a huge fan of tape. I'm still trying to get marks off of my old childhood playmo from where I had tape on them. So maybe tape isn't a very good plan! I'm just a little hesitant to take a hairdryer to precious old playmobil to soften and bend it. It seems a little scary, but i'll try it.
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tape is always a good resource. I use it often for photo shootings. I just took some pictures for next chapter of GH (aka Garden of Heroes) and I needed to use steck parts, for a background, joined in a different way as they should be joined., and tape came in handy! plus.... you can't see it in photographs in the light is right. ;D