Zeedust wrote:william-james88 wrote:Zeedust wrote:Jinbu arrived today.
Opened it up, saw an Arms Micron sprue, heart sank as I realized that there was somehow a defective first-run Jinbu still lurking around and I got hit with it.
Why did I do this to myself? Even in a best-case scenario, this is gonna SUCK...
But isnt is just bad assembly? Cant you reassemble it correctly?
It's a more intricate repair than I've ever attempted before, and my hands aren't the steadiest. Plus I'm worried I'll strip one of the screw heads by misjudging the proper screwdriver size. I've done that once before.
EDIT, WHICH AFTERWARDS WAS EDITED AGAIN: Yep, there we go. One screw head, shredded into complete and utter (the only word I couldpossibly use here got censored)-ing unusability with the same screwdriver that worked just fine on the others, right when I'm halfway through taking the damn thing apart. And then getting the non-ruined leg back together was WAY harder than it should have been. My hand hurts. I feel like an idiot. A sad, angry idiot.
Not to add fuel to the anger party, but i can probably explain the head shredding issues.
If you know this already, my apologies.
JIS is the standard for screw heads in Japan.
http://www.jisc.go.jp/eng/index.htmlhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Industrial_StandardsSimilar to our phillips but not exact.
Here is it how it applies to our toys.
http://revlimiter.net/blog/2014/09/the-japanese-phillips-jis-screwdrivers/So using US tools on Japanese toys will usually lead to skipping/ shredding issues.
Sometimes immediately, sometimes over a long period; depends on multiple factors.
You can find JIS sets, on the cheap, on eBay, Amazon and most computer part sites.
So, its not you, it just happens to be the tool measurements, hopefully...
Good luck with the rest of it.