Broken CM's Brave 30 Gordian Journal 17DEC2022-

[TheMazingerZ]

So, I came across a broken CM's Brave 30 Gordian on a social media post today, and when I saw it was selling for $100 USD shipped, I had to jump on it immediately! The seller told me that the right knee had broken off and that he had glued it back together, but not it would not swivel anymore. Well, I think I may be able to make the proper repairs to this great figure and bring it back to it's glory. 

Here are the pictures the current owner posted:







It looks like it is in excellent shape, minus the broken knee. Let's see what happens...

Updates soon.

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[actionawesome]

Great find and it does look in great shape

[TheMazingerZ]

I received the Gordian yesterday, December 21, 2022. Sadly, when I opened the box and removed the Gordian figure, the broken knee had come unglued and also the head had fallen off due to the tiny plastic clip that holds it in place breaking. Let's see if I can make this project work...

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[TheMazingerZ]

***Final Update***

So, yesterday I received the CM's Brave 30 Gordian, which was a pretty fast delivery time for this time of year... Good Job USPS!

Unfortunately, when I took the Gordian figure out of the box, the knee had alredy come unglued again, and the little plastic clip that attaches the head to the neck had snapped, so the head was detached. Damn!

Anyway, today I managed to re-glue the knee to it's broken piece, plus I used a tiny screw to further secure the two broken pieces together. So far it seems to be holding well and the knee joint has 100% full movement, even the 360 degree swing motion. So that is that for the knee repair.

Now, the head-neck connector was a little trickier to repair. I tried using a small piece of PTFE tubing screwed into the ball part of the original balljoint to repair it. However, it turned out to provide too weak of a hold and the head would come off at the slightest touch. So I decided to break out my calipers, take some measurements, and design a part that I could make on my 3D printer. This seemed to work quite nicely! The head is held in place securely, and the 3D printed part is quite stronger than the original.



It's a WIN!!!



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