How to take em apart!

[Mando3lite]

what is the best way to take figures apart, with out breaking him apart.
what do you find works best, now i know a blow drier works, but the joints attaching the shoulders to the body are more complicating than the others.
fore arms and knee joints i can do. but shoulders, heads, and SA torsos are the parts in question.

any help would be appreciated

[Blue2th]

You can use a blow-torch on the Anakin figures lol to get that Mustafar look. :grin:

Actually, I've heard you can place them in hot water (not boiling) to soften up the plastic so it doesn't break during careful pull-apart.
Though I will have to try that myself to see if it actually works.

[figrin bran]

Actually, I've heard you can place them in hot water (not boiling) to soften up the plastic so it doesn't break during careful pull-apart.
Though I will have to try that myself to see if it actually works.

This definitely works. It can even be boiling water.

Mando, Is there/are there specific figures that you're trying to take apart?

[jedi master sal]

I've only ever boiled and popped the heads and some arms off of figures. I have no idea how to separate legs and torsos (without taking an exacto to them, which I'd prefer not to do).

[Mando3lite]

yes figrin, umm i wanted to give quinlan vos some clone arms, and i wanted to swith some heads around on crappy figs to make some generic civillians.

thanks for the tips.