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<\/p>\nI gave up looking for a pullip eye mechanism over a year ago, the pullip secondary market for me is dispersed between like one barely used american forum and the wild west of french ebay where the market is 50% blythe customs titled pullip, 45% overpriced full customs that don\u2019t sell or BNIB, 5% grainy tiny photos with no information. Hey, I got a Papin fixer upper for real cheap once but mostly it\u2019s seriously damaged or knockoff doll roulette. Rida aka Benie I got from ebay UK before they started charging obscene amounts in postage and customs fees.<\/p>\n
Pullip Rida\u2019s been wearing acrylic eyes BJD style – except while the lastest custom was in pieces – for years. Which is fine, except Pullips don\u2019t have magnets so you have the unscrew the whole thing if dusting the shelf accidentally knocks the eye back into the head\u2026and that happens more than you\u2019d expect.<\/p>\n
I\u2019d heard rumours of people making their own eyemechs but no tutorials and I can\u2019t really see how it would work without creating something as complicated as the original which is a nifty lil piece of engineering: 2 eye stalks on springs yoked together so that they move in tandem plus two seperate eyelids on springs pushed by two levers to wink or blink.<\/p>\n
Instead I decided I\u2019d put the pointy part of chopstick into the half eye so that I could manoeuvre it from the outside using the eyelid lever holes on the head\u2019s backplate. I figured I could move the eyes anywhere I wanted that way.
\nHere\u2019s what I learned: chopsticks give you zero movement and more importantly the eye lever holes in the back of a pullip\u2019s head are not at eye level at all.<\/b><\/p>\n
So here\u2019s the revised eye stalks (cotton buds, I\u2019ve since removed all cotton, not exactly clean looking – also removed the plastic filaments stuck to the eyes)
\nThermo plastic + a cotton bud stalk at the very bottom of the eye at a 90 degree angle<\/b><\/p>\n
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Do they allow me to reposition the eyes side to side? NO
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Now if the spirit moves me someday, I could try a different eye stalk angle by putting the eyes in a cup of boiling water to make the thermoplastic soft again, move the stick and see if that gives more movement or I could try attaching both stalks to a piece of plastic and moving that with it\u2019s own lever but I really doubt that they would align properly given how complex eye mechs are: it would be too stiff and you\u2019d end up with wonkeye.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s my feeble contribution to all those stuck without an eyemech for their Pullip. Enjoy!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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