For those not familiar, somehow the magnet inside LD’s left arm that holds his hand in place (but also allows it to turn to different positions) came unglued. I have been attempting to fix it since acquiring LUGDoug. So far it has been epic fail.
My only success so far has been cleaning the cruddy old glue off the magnet. But I can’t get it glued back in, despite several attempts. The problem is getting the magnet aligned properly inside the arm. If I just drop it in, it invariable flips over or lands on its side. I’ve tried lots of glue-free practice attempts and I can’t do it. I got out tweezers to help drop it in but the magnet sticks to the tweezers, so that didn’t help. (If they make plastic tweezers, I don’t know where to get them.) I don’t know what else to try in that department.
The other way is to put the magnet on the hand magnet, and the put the hand in place and push the arm magnet in that way. The risk is that if there’s lots of glue down there (and if there’s not enough, it just doesn’t stick), that the hand will get glued in place as well. Which is what almost happened tonight. After holding it in place for awhile, I tried pulling the hand out and it was stuck. Finally I yanked it and it came out, but of course the arm magnet came with it, and is in fact now glued to the hand magnet, so I’m gonna have to give that some serious solvent treatment just to get it off and get everything cleaned up for another attempt.
But I’m not exactly sure what’s going to be involved in that attempt. I was really hoping to have this resolved soon cause I leave for Chicago Tuesday morning. I definitely don’t want to be the guy who ruins LUGDoug. But I also would prefer if his hand stays in place for this trip.
So if anybody has any suggestions for what to do here, now’s the time to make them. Thanks.