Quote Originally Posted by Krayt View Post
Now the pictures are done.... Some words to go with it.

Mine (and many others) have a huge clunk noise when the tail is moved, and then the tail doesn't hold in "dino mode".

The clunk you would think is the ratchet.... But it's not. The cross piece that is supposed to hold the ratchet in place only has a couple of mm of grab into the ratchet. The noise is this jumping/snapping/clunking out of the ratchet piece, and the fact that there is a spring means the ratchet peices can be pushed out of the way so the tail can move.

Not here's the kicker. One plain of the cross is uniform:

lllllllllllllllllllll
:::::::::::::
OOOOOOOO


The other plain is not: (trying a few symbols to try and say what I mean)

iiiillllllllllllliiii
....::::::::::....
__---------__

This means that the "clunk" is this cross piece coming out of the ratchet, and when you rotate it two things:

The tail doesn't move far enough (90 deg) to get to the other slot.
There is a circle moulded with/around the ratchets cross (picture a circle with a cross in it) so the uniform plain can't "fall" into place as it is always touching the circle.

So he has dodgy hips AND a dodgy tail ratchets?

Man, trippers is really showing his age.

Have you guys started a thread here at OTCA for all the various mods and stuff, be nice to get all this info in one technical thread.
Similar stuff over at TFW but it tends to sprawl into various threads making it hard to follow.

Be nice to have a resource of all ideas and suggested fixes in one place for people that have him, and the many more over the following year who will be asking for these bits of technical help etc.