>>11294997
You don't have to be a mechanic to put a few drops of fluid into a joint and work it in. I'm not saying you should have an entire toolset to fix and replace shit, but the more you collect the more likely you are to run into questionable QC, and it helps to be prepared. A 50ml bottle will last you basically forever.
>Also oil is for loosening joints, not tightening.
Duh, joints can be too tight sometimes too. I just recently had a figure shear itself in half within minutes because a torso joint was obscenely tight. It happens.
>>11295057
>But the fact of the matter is even with any joint tightening liquid, all joints will inevitably loosen up over time as the material wears away.
Well sure, you will also inevitably die and all of your plastic crack will degrade into dust and the sun will envelop the earth. Even ratchets eventually grind their teeth down and weaken whatever spring mechanism they have, it's the nature of toys being played with. I can't speak for every brand but I have plenty of revos with and without revolver joints and they're still holding up fine after years of abuse, mostly only needing fixing if they had a problem to begin with. Worrying about eventualities, especially if they can be remedied, is just pointless to me.
>But even if the joints on Japanese figures were made with science magic and never failed, they still don't make a quarter of the characters I like.
As a TF fag I feel you anon. It's the one area where domestics will probably always win. I'm lucky to get a niche repaint of a popular character, much less an actual niche character.

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