…when Amber is going to need to go under the knife.
I’ve got a broken finger or two, there’s a knee getting a little loose and both shoulders are fully loose on the “arms out” axis. Her arms still hold up if you bring them forward and backward, but out and in theres no control at all.
She’s a Zelex Inspiration 170. Anybody got any experience or expertise to share before i go in?
The only thing I know, to press hard with your fingers to feel where the bolts and nuts are and there you insert a pin so you have an opening to can fix it… but it will be protected with a winding of material between the skelleton and the silicone, have to remove this as well on some way… well I wish you for sure good luck, also to Amber.
Best is to get the original blend skin material from the manufacture to put a bit into the holes after all… the fingers ive read somewhere to use harder silicone… Iam sure someone here around will know what you must have for.
The shoulders… I really dont know.
All the posing stuff is asking a lot from dolls I guess.
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Can you show the problem with the shoulders to the manufacture for to come back to you what you can do about to fix this?
I cant talk Zelex specifically, but I have done similar shoulder work on a DS silicone. My method was to go in via the inside arm seam line and arm pit, this way any scaring would be least visible. and the outside of the shoulder would be untouched.
For the knees, feel for the bolt, then make a small incision on both sides on the seam lines.
I had no access to colour matched silicone so used regular clear silicone to close up. With a neat incision you can get a very tidy closure even with clear silicone.
Isopropyl alcohol to clean all surfaces before closure, but be 100% certain its all evaporated before trying to close, as it will stop silicone curing.
I wish I could suggest a product that would work for closure, but as I said, I have no specific Zelex knowledge, so I cant say for sure what will work. What i can say is that a clean cut is way easier to close neatly than a messy tear, so when you do figure out how you will go in, make the cut as smooth and deep as you can.
Best of Luck. It’s never nice to open our beloved partners up, but sometimes we have to.
K
I’ve done the shoulder surgery before. But it was on the pre-Inspiration 170. I don’t think the joint is the same.
You’re right, though - you do go through the armpit. The last foray I made ended up messier than I wanted and on the old 170 body I still have that armpit is a Sil-Poxy Disaster Zone. I’m more efficient now.
And I learned to stop using box-cutters to make that incision. I’ve actually got a package of medical scalpels coming in for this work.
But I disagree with you on the knees. I find it’s less messy if you cut in the back of the knee, where there’s a natural seam when she bends it. You can get away with a smaller cut if you just go across on that natural seam to the inside of the joint where the bolt is. The scar it leaves is fairly neat, not all that obvious and it disappears when the knee is bent.
Plus when you will fix the cut in the back of the knee in standing position (straight legs), it will be a strong and hard to tear solution.