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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 03:31:20
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Fixture of Dakka
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In the title.
WTF?!
I have assmembled 6 of them, all in one go, all at the same stages (stalled at the pilot and passenger mounting stage, as I want to make sure the stance and hand-on-support matches. 3 of them have a ball joint that just won't ram home. And I've snapped off one flying stand so far.
The balls won't go in, so how to fix?
a. Drill a deeper hole, but will that work?
Won't this result in a cylindrical socket (with the top 'roof' flattened out), that the ball joint won't fit snugly? I already use tiny pieces of paper towels in my far older 5th ed ravager/raider ball joints, and that's okay, but it should not be happening to BRAND NEW MODELS.
(yeah, I'm shouting)
b. REM fix?
I will hate this option. Flat drill bits don't seem to exist in the 7/16 or 1/8 range. Plus, the REM will sometimes snap off the flying stand (I experienced this with Crisis Suits). Hats off to the hobbyists that can work with REMs and not ending up swearing while going through half a bottle of nail polish remover.
c. I'm thinking of simply drilling a new hole into the mount that the haywire blaster plugs into, alleviating the stupid nose-heavy element to, what on the data sheet is an awesome unit, but a superbly BADly designed model. This will still have a non-spherical socket for our ball joints. I do not relish drilling that, and then going with the 5e stick joints from left over crisis suit/wave serpent flying stands.
So, advice?
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@UK folks:
Is there an opposite for "Cheers" ?
Would "Bollocks" suffice? As in, to the guy who designed the Skyweaver as a model:
"Yarbles to you! Great bouncy yarblockers!"
Or
"Ho! Ho! Ho! You're a cheap, stinking, gloppy bottle of ... Cheap. Stinking! Chip oil! Come and get one in the yarbles, if you have any yarbels, you eunuch jelly-bell!"
Yes, that's a wee bit paraphrased.
srsly, though, I'd love some Skyweaver assembly advice.
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"You can bring any cheesy unit you want. If you lose. Casey taught me that." -Tim S.
"I'm gonna follow Casey; he knows where the beer's at!" -Blackmoor, BAO 2013
Quitting Daemon Princes, Bob and Fred - a 40k webcomic |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 10:51:40
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Ork-Hunting Inquisitorial Xenokiller
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Explain "won't go in".
Whilst I don't think I've tried with a Skyweaver, I know some of the other vehicles require some push, and sometimes a little twist, to get the ball into the socket, it doesn't just sit in, it almost clicks into place.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 12:01:21
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Blood Angel Terminator with Lightning Claws
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Is this the ball and socket for a flying base?
There should be a diagonal cut on one of the socket sides, cut with an exacto as the flash could be holding it closed then the ball just clicks in place
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DV8 wrote:Blood Angels Furioso Dreadnought should also be double-fisted.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 16:43:12
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Addressing this:
Fictional wrote:Whilst I don't think I've tried with a Skyweaver, I know some of the other vehicles require some push, and sometimes a little twist, to get the ball into the socket, it doesn't just sit in, it almost clicks into place.
This is true, the 'clicking into place'. For 10+ years, I have owned six 5th edition raider/ravager vehicles with the round ball and socket joints and 5 venoms with the same joint. Yes, those 'click' in place and have for the 10+ years, with two exceptions that stay solid with a tiny bit of paper towel in the socket.
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Here is a jetbike, and that white bit of fuzz is a wee bit of paper towel, which without, the bike would fall off. This is how 5 of them are:
The one pictured has the more solid of fits (but still crappy).
"won't go in" is pretty much as written, the ball joint isn't holding the jetbike. The model holds for a moment and then nose dives off. I don't have precision instruments to figure if it's a half millimeter off or what.
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"You can bring any cheesy unit you want. If you lose. Casey taught me that." -Tim S.
"I'm gonna follow Casey; he knows where the beer's at!" -Blackmoor, BAO 2013
Quitting Daemon Princes, Bob and Fred - a 40k webcomic |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 16:51:45
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Ship's Officer
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You could always drill a hole on top of the ball, glue a piece of paper clip, drill a hole underneath the vehicle matching the pin to fit it in: use a piece of tack glue/glue dot instead of paper towel if needed.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 16:54:49
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Fixture of Dakka
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Yes. Yes, it is.
Rybrook wrote:There should be a diagonal cut on one of the socket sides, cut with an exacto as the flash could be holding it closed then the ball just clicks in place
There is a diagonal ... space, per the model's design. And there's no flash in the socket; the model's socket is composed of two halves, the starboard and port side of the bike's seat/engine.
I think that part of being split hemispheric-ally, left & right, coupled with the diagonal ... indent (?) is contributing to the problem. By design it just seems shallow, too shallow for the ball joint. Automatically Appended Next Post: Big Mac wrote:You could always drill a hole on top of the ball, glue a piece of paper clip, drill a hole underneath the vehicle matching the pin to fit it in: use a piece of tack glue/glue dot instead of paper towel if needed.
Pin it! Good idea.
I have a tiny drill bit and dremmel (sp?) and hunting down a paper clip won't be a problem.
Any advice to add on making sure I keep the line straight/true? I'm not the most dexterous of hobbyists. I don't own a drill press nor vice. I've tried to pin things before, and only succeeded on a vehicle sized scale. Infantry sized pinning has proved to be too fine a task.
And trying this for 6 jetbikes means I am going to roll a  at some point and there won't be a CP reroll to undo the mistake.
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"You can bring any cheesy unit you want. If you lose. Casey taught me that." -Tim S.
"I'm gonna follow Casey; he knows where the beer's at!" -Blackmoor, BAO 2013
Quitting Daemon Princes, Bob and Fred - a 40k webcomic |
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 18:44:18
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Rookie Pilot
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I razor sawed the tops off and used magnets. Very handy for rapid deployment out of the foam case.
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![[Post New]](/s/i/i.gif) 2019/11/26 22:33:02
Subject: The bad ball joint on Skyweavers; Is there a fix?
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Fixture of Dakka
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mrshl9898 wrote:I razor sawed the tops off and used magnets. Very handy for rapid deployment out of the foam case.
Didja drill out the socket first? That is, did you make the socket REM's fitting as flat as possible? Any particular size REM? Are flat drill bits on that tiny scale available Down Under?
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"You can bring any cheesy unit you want. If you lose. Casey taught me that." -Tim S.
"I'm gonna follow Casey; he knows where the beer's at!" -Blackmoor, BAO 2013
Quitting Daemon Princes, Bob and Fred - a 40k webcomic |
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