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11-19-2018, 09:11 AM | #141 |
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As far as directions for the lower torso are concerned, I put photos of the "original" appearance of the piece side-by-side with the "trimmed" version of the piece so you can get a visual reference there to guide you as you work. But the overall idea is just to shave thin little arches of plastic off of the "love handles" on each side for a tapered fit into the waist piece. Place the BFS lower torso onto the MTF waist and you'll see where the two make contact and prevent the lower torso from fitting down into the waist. That's your target area to make a tapered shaving from. You do not need to shave down in the main portions of the front or the back. Just take small amounts off evenly from both sides and then test fit. Repeat the process until the lower torso can fit down into the MTF waist piece somewhat. According to my calipers and my best by-eye judgement it looks like about 0.05" (1/20th of an inch) from the BOTTOM of the BFS torso to the TOP of the MTF waist. A fair visual marker will be that the bottom of the BFS lower torso should line up at about the middle of the belt on the MTF waist. It doesn't need to fit all of the way to the bottom (and if you go that far, you'll end up with a major gap between the upper and lower torso, I would imagine). It just needs to fit inside the belt area about half-way down. If the lower torso doesn't fit down into the waist you won't be able to attach the upper torso. I took some more pictures to try to illustrate the final goal of the modification: And here are the existing images from the listing: Let me know if any more information or different photo angles would be useful. I'll be happy to provide you guys with whatever I can.
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11-19-2018, 10:56 AM | #142 |
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That 3rd pic is great, and I understand much better thank you and Happy Thanksgiving!!
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11-22-2018, 07:50 AM | #143 |
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Glad to help. Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
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11-23-2018, 01:11 PM | #144 |
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11-24-2018, 07:16 PM | #145 |
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11-26-2018, 10:39 AM | #146 |
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12-03-2018, 11:55 PM | #147 |
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Attempting to get started now.
Is the MTF torso 't-bar' type molded into the rest of the torso where it has to be dremeled or cut out - or can you split the lower torso piece and remove the 't-bar' like piece separately to make room for the adapter? Last edited by Dod Ear; 12-04-2018 at 07:43 PM.. |
12-04-2018, 07:21 AM | #148 |
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Here is an old photo I have on-hand that shows what they look like (male piece on the far left, female piece next to that, still not totally removed from the gluing):
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12-04-2018, 12:08 PM | #149 |
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Got a batch of the male neck pegs and the neck end ball is way too loose. It doesn't fall out, but the head bobbles all about.
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12-04-2018, 01:23 PM | #150 |
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It's possible that the print tolerance went wildly off base, but it's also possible that my HACKS and/or your particular HACKS figure's tolerance is the issue. If you can answer all of the above in as great detail as possible that will help to narrow down the source of the issue. If you just got a bad print I can send you some of my parts I have on-hand, but if the HACKS figures I based my development pieces on were tighter in the socket than most other HACKS then a diameter update will be in order.
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