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RE-STRINGING DIY INSTRUCTIONS
Kidz 'n' Cats Dolls
          
This doll arrived with the arms detached - the fixing holding the elastic to one arm had let go of the elastic.  It appeared to be a plastic disk behind a very small hole in the arm and the elastic was held with a metal pin in the arm that was still strung.  So the problem was how to remove the small disc and reattach the elastic. The young lady is armless
          
We held the end of the arm upright (hand down) and jiggled it around so that the small plastic disc sat onto the hole on the arm and we poked a straightened paper clip into it to stop it moving around.

 We then pushed some stiff (waxed) cord upwards into the arm through the hole in the little disc.  After we had pushed a lot in we removed the straightened paper clip and pushed the disk to one side.  Then using the straightened paperclip (now with a little hook on the end) we fished around until we hooked the other end of the cord we had pushed through the small disk.  When we pulled that cord out of the arm we had the small disk held by the cord passing through it. 

 Cord in, through the disk and out
          
We then dipped the end of the arm into hot water to soften it. Softening the end of the arm in hot water
          
Once the end of the arm was soft we pulled on the cord - and out popped the disc. The disc to hold the elastic is out with a good pull
          
We then re-threaded the elastic through the two parts of the right hand, pushed the elastic through the body, pulled the elastic through the top of the left arm and then through the little plastic disk.  We hooked an open split ring through the elastic and closed the ring with pliers. The arms are restrung throgh the body and a ring holds the elastic in the disc
          
Now, in order to make it easy to push the assembly (holding the elastic) into the bottom of the arm (without having to also try and pull enough spare elastic out of the arm to work comfortably) we pulled the elastic out of the top of the arm as far as possible and then put a small plastic clamp on the elastic to stop it pulling back into the top of the arm.  A small clamp holds out some spare elastic
          
Now, the end of the bottom arm was softened by heating in hot water as before and the assembly at the end of the elastic is pushed into the hole in the arm using pliers. The disc assembly is pushed into the heated and softened arm
          
The little clamp is then removed and the elastic snaps back into the top of the arm and the repair is complete. Clamp off and her arm joint closes
          
She looks much happier. That's better

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