Fixes for loose joints?

[Cedar]

Hi All,

I recently bought the new Acroyear X (Scorl) figure, it was too cool to pass up! I wasn't disappointed by the cool factor and the highly detailed and cool sculpt of this toy and it brought back many nostalgic moments (I had a bunch of Micronauts which I played the snot out of as a kid, but all gone now). Out of the box, I noticed Scorl's right hip/thigh joint, located in the waist, was pretty loose... add on his heavy claw chassis (smoked chrome, btw, anyone notice? It's beautiful!) and he can't pose very well anymore and inadvertently does the splits (ouch!).

In my search to try to find a 'fix,' I read that nail polish could be painted on to thicken the joint and make it tighter, but I thought I'd run it by you fellows to see if you've tried that before, or if there was a better solution anyone could suggest. I don't want to mess around too much just yet, I can still get some decent poses with the character (though just not with the right leg as the supporting leg), but if nail polish is a tried and true method to tighten the joint, I would appreciate it if someone would confirm.

PS: I promptly went out and bought SpyMicroman... He's a really great toy too and his joints are nice and tight. He's no match for AcroScorl though, and spends much of the time running away from the intimidating Scorl or else getting his butt kicked:

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I had to order in some reinforcements from my local comicshop (Automaster, Skymaster) and some teammates for Scorl (Biom, Cleve).

[Rev-Spazim]

In my search to try to find a 'fix,' I read that nail polish could be painted on to thicken the joint and make it tighter, but I thought I'd run it by you fellows to see if you've tried that before, or if there was a better solution anyone could suggest. I don't want to mess around too much just yet, I can still get some decent poses with the character (though just not with the right leg as the supporting leg), but if nail polish is a tried and true method to tighten the joint, I would appreciate it if someone would confirm.

Nail polish is the best solution I know of to fix joints, as it dose not destroy the Figs (As long as you use Clear Nail Polish . that is ) I have fix many figs this way and have yet to have any problems. (The best way to find ways to fix old or broken figs is by looking for the figure modding community.)

Hope this helps you.

[Cedar]

Thanks for the reply!
I went ahead and used what I thought was clear nail polish (turns out it had some yellow in it) and 'painted' the ball joints. It worked great and AcroScorl's limbs are now tighter than new! I love it! He can now do some really fantastic poses.

Now if there's something we can do about the loose wrists... any suggestions on how to strengthen those up??

[rednecktex]

Thanks for the tip! ;D