Seibertron wrote:It Is Him wrote:It's easy. Just borrow your wife's hair dryer, set it to high heat and low blast, or whatever settings those things have, and let'er'rip. Hopefully you'll see a difference after a minute or so. The trick also worked decently well on Animated Arcee's hands. As for storing them, try a little bit of bubble wrap.
Um wow. Thanks for the tip. My Masterpiece rear wing tips look like nothing was ever wrong with them. And the one Skywarp tip doesn't look bent at all any more after this. Amazing! Is this a widely known fix for plastic stress?
I also tried this on my Classics Rodimus where the shoulder ball joint connects. I fixed one side with this but the other side was taking too long. I was getting worried about the hair dryer causing damage to the plastic so I decided not to continue.
Definitely want to try this on Henkei Wildrider's shoulder ball joints at some point as well as TFA Arcee.
Great tip!
Seibertron wrote:It Is Him wrote:That's pretty amazing. You know, my beat up G1 Jetfire could definitely use an H202 bath, and I don't think I would mind if I accidentally ruin it, even if it is that rare sticker variant. I'll have to think about it some more.
It might be worth taking him apart instead of damaging those Robotech stickers. The H202 will rust the metal / die cast on the figure slightly (which might be removed with a rust remover but i haven't tried that yet). Alternatively, you could try to make this Retr0brite stuff at http://retr0bright.wikispaces.com/ and then apply it only to the pieces that need some TLC. I wouldn't damage the near unreplacable sticker variants, especially if it's a carryover Robotech sticker(s) on the wings.
Seibertron wrote:El Duque wrote:I'm gonna have to try that hair dryer trick.
Yes you do my friend. Check out this result on my original G1 Hot Rod
Quaternion wrote:Woah, flashback...
I just realized that had Lander as a kid but I completely forgot about it. It feels really eerie deja vu when new galleries pop up and then a bunch of memories of that figure just come flashing back to me. But then again, I suppose Lander was a rather forgettable figure.
Oilspill wrote:The worst thing is, I'm kind of tempted to get my hands on a few Pretenders now. I think they're a horrible idea, but something in them is starting to appeal to me. Maybe it's Seibertron's awesome photography making some very average toys look cool.
Caelus wrote:I told my wife about the stress-mark fix and she freaked, began immediately looking for pieces of plastic to damage and deface so she could test it.
It does indeed work on Mega Bloks pieces, and she is now wanting to find out if she's right about why it works.
Seibertron wrote:Caelus wrote:I told my wife about the stress-mark fix and she freaked, began immediately looking for pieces of plastic to damage and deface so she could test it.
It does indeed work on Mega Bloks pieces, and she is now wanting to find out if she's right about why it works.
It has to be melting the plastic on some level. Would love to know why as well. Can't believe we didn't know about this fix and that no one mentioned this to me before yesterday.
Anyone else got some neat tricks to fix our figures besides H2O2 for yellowing and hair dryers for stress marks?
Seibertron wrote:Caelus wrote:I told my wife about the stress-mark fix and she freaked, began immediately looking for pieces of plastic to damage and deface so she could test it.
It does indeed work on Mega Bloks pieces, and she is now wanting to find out if she's right about why it works.
It has to be melting the plastic on some level. Would love to know why as well.
Seibertron wrote:It Is Him wrote:It's easy. Just borrow your wife's hair dryer, set it to high heat and low blast, or whatever settings those things have, and let'er'rip. Hopefully you'll see a difference after a minute or so. The trick also worked decently well on Animated Arcee's hands. As for storing them, try a little bit of bubble wrap.
Um wow. Thanks for the tip. My Masterpiece rear wing tips look like nothing was ever wrong with them. And the one Skywarp tip doesn't look bent at all any more after this. Amazing! Is this a widely known fix for plastic stress?
I also tried this on my Classics Rodimus where the shoulder ball joint connects. I fixed one side with this but the other side was taking too long. I was getting worried about the hair dryer causing damage to the plastic so I decided not to continue.
Definitely want to try this on Henkei Wildrider's shoulder ball joints at some point as well as TFA Arcee.
Great tip!
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