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>still want to fix my Trypticon's side panel
>My hair dryer doesn't get hot at all enough to heat the plastic so I borrowed a better hair dryer from my sister that actually gets hot
>Get my Trypticon ready, remove his legs to get them out of the way as the hip ball joints unscrew from slots in the side panels, then strap a shoelace around his body to forcibly hold the panel down flush against his body the way it's supposed to be
>blast it with my sister's hair dryer for a minute or so
>plastic gets hot as fuck, let it cool on its own
>untie it, glad to see the panel is staying in place on its own, open and close it a few times to see if it's staying and it is
>job well done
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>start reassembling him, try to screw the leg back onto the formerly bent panel
>my sister's hair dryer was actually hot enough to warp the slots for attaching the leg to the panel and it wouldn't fit in anymore
In hindsight I'm not 100% certain almost destroying my precious dinosaur toy with a hair dryer just to close a 2mm-ish panel gap was completely worth it but luckily it only took like a half an hour of trying to trim plastic off of the edges of the warped slot until I managed to get the leg to fit in again and screw in pretty much good as new. I guess it worked out in the end, barely.
