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Post by triumshockwave on Sept 21, 2021 20:21:58 GMT -5
Shortly after opening my Ark, I noticed the left shoulder didn't feel right. It wasn't ratcheting right as I rotated it. Less than a day later, it didn't ratchet at all and was just spinning.
The way the shoulder is built, there's a stationary gear which the shoulder rotates around, with a separate piece of softer, tougher plastic in the arm providing the "tooth". The issue is that there is a stunningly small amount of plastic keeping that gear stationary, which does not do a great job of holding up against the torque needed to rotate the shoulder. You can see here, the four sad little tabs around this post which were laughably supposed to keep that gear from rotating, are now mangled.
What I've done to fix it, since there was still enough left to work with, was I glued the gear into place to hold it and tightened the screw down as much as I could without risking cracking the plastic. I also filed the tooth down a bit so it wouldn't take as much torque to get the gear to go past it. That seems to have it working better than the right shoulder, which I might now go and proactively fix. If you feel some resistance or extra "play" when rotating it before it actually "clicks", that's those tabs bending in agony.
Fix is easy. Four screws hold the shoulder armor together, and it comes right apart. No crazy tiny pieces to go flying out or anything. Might need a slightly long screwdriver to get at those screws though.
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