Saturday, 16 November 2013

Tutorial on How to repair broken Gouten leg (only the thigh joint though)

I think by now almost 80% of the existing Prop & Equip Gouten have at least one of their legs broken. Don't be surprise and think that "ahahaha my set is MISB! It is not broken haha!" and then when you open it, its broken right out of the box! Many a collectors already encountered this unpleasant incident already and i expect many more will too when they buy a misb set from another collector. Good news is, its not hard to fix the broken joint at all :D Im specificaly talking about the thigh joint connecting to the upper leg.

In this premise, I have prepared a short tutorial on how to fix the broken joint. I am sure there are a lot of ways to fix it but this one was easiest for me but it require a double ball joint that you can get from HLJ.com :)

See photo below where my gouten's front left thigh/leg joint was broken. The thigh was connected to the body via a circular joint with a metal rod (I have tkane out the not-broken back leg to see how it looks like when it is not broken). No way the leg can be joined back using just super glue.


I can't think of a way to just repair that broken circular wheel thingie so i went about replacing it with a different joint and i found the double ball joint from HLJ works best in this case.

First I used my blade to ply out that circular joint stuck to the body. I then use the double ball joint socket joint and sealed it on the hole where the circular joint used to be on the body using putty and super glue, see photo below.



Next I stuff putty onto the leg joint and then stuff the ball joint on it and let all of these dry.

Once the putty dried i added more super glue to make sure the joint are really secured.

Using a hairdryer i blow the joint to make it more easier to connect the ball joint on the leg and the socket joint on the body. Once its connected, Gouten looks exactly the same when he is not broken :D The added advantage is that ball joint connecting thigh and body makes the leg slightly more poseable than it used to :D

So there you go, hope you can repair yours too :)

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  1. Unknown9 March 2014 at 13:20

    bro, can you tell me more about these? i was encountered the same problem, and how to repair the loose joint

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    1. henry wong26 March 2014 at 17:41

      Jeez!! Im so sorry! I didnt see your comment until now!!

      So bro, what else exactly you wanted to know more about besides the steps I laid out above? :)

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  2. Destinyseed697 September 2014 at 06:06

    Hello
    I will need your helpr to fix my gouten
    Thanks

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    1. henry wong8 September 2014 at 01:27

      hi man sure ill be happy to help if you stay at singapore or malaysia that is :) let me know if you really want your gouten repaired :)

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  3. Eva^LoN328 May 2015 at 23:53

    Hi, can I know where can i get those double ball joint? And what size should i buy for front and back leg.

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    1. henry wong31 May 2015 at 08:38

      You can get these double ball joints from hlj.com :)

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    2. Eva^LoN31 June 2015 at 21:54

      I found that there was quite a few type, which one is the most recommended?

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    3. henry wong2 June 2015 at 18:36

      hi you can use these for the thighs:
      http://hlj.com/product/YLSPPC-TN05D/Sci

      It has joints of several sizes.

      I noticed you mentioned front and back leg. Are you talking about the thigh joints as per my tutorials or the knees? If its the knees you will need different joints for it. Revoltech joints should work but I have not experiment which size is best (revol comes in 10cm, 8cm, 6cm, 4cm joints)

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    4. Eva^LoN310 June 2015 at 23:42

      Sorry for the late reply bro. Ya, the broken part of the front leg is on knee, the back leg is on the thigh. Which revoltech joint is the most recommended?

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