ACK! Help with re-stringing 1999 Volks SD10

You really need to try and keep the string intact... although it's fixable if not. Have you cut it, or is it still there? I've restrung a couple older SDs, so I can try to help out. ^^


~Kalmia

 

If you absolutely have to cut the string, you can replace it with the same sort of twine. There is just enough room in the ball joint to fit the tip of a small pair of needle nose pliers. So this is what you do:

-Take the untied string, and stuff one end into the ball joint on one side of the bar.

-With a tiny screwdriver, piece of stiff wire, etc, just kind of push the end of the string around until you can see a bit of the string on the other side of the wire.

-Grab the bit of string with your needle nose pliers and pull it up through.

- Knot the ends of the string together to make a loop.

As for attaching it to the elastic:

- Stretch out the elastic from the arm and clamp it so that you have enough room to pull the loop of the twine through the loop of elastic.

- Once the twine is through the elastic, thread the hand and ball joint through the twine loop. Pull it tight, and twine should be wrapped around the elastic and anchored by the hand.

 

It took me a while to figure this out, but the feet and hands of old SD10s are attached by looping the elastic through the string, not the other way around.

In other words, to detach it, you'll need to pull the elastic out as far as you can and pull a loop of elastic through the string so you can fit the foot through and unhook it. It's hard to describe or illustrate without a doll on hand... do you sort of get what I mean? ^^; I can try to rig up an apparatus with some spare elastic and string if it doesn't make sense.


~Kalmia