great tip

I'm doing an entire system with these fitting/pipe. The hot water sounds like a great idea for a single repair but would be kinda difficult for two or three hours of work. Guess I could use a torch to keep the water hot. I have been using some Windex as a lube that helps a little but it still takes lots of muscle. Not so easy at age 79!! ;o(

Finished my drip system today. Since I had about 30 "T" and elbow fitting ends to make up, I did two things to make the job easier. 1- I took some measurements and "pre-fabbed" sections of the system in the garage then assembled those sections in the garden. 2- Since I had so many fittings to deal with, I tried using a heat gun to soften the ends of the tubing. Only needed a bit of heat to soften the first 1/4" to 1/2" of the tubing. Also used the heat gun, like it's used on PVC to straighten out the "curvy" tubing sections. Once I figured out how much to heat the tubing (only a small amount right at the end) they went into the fittings much easier than cold (un-heated). Heating it too much made it too soft and it would just fold or distort. Worked them all in about one inch. Thanks for the tip!! All .710 size tube. Some "Toro" and some Depot. Did notice the Toro worked much better with the heat. The Depot tubing wanted to collapse much easier. Much harder to determine the right amount of heat.

Lowes or home depot

Glad it was of help!

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+Raine Kaspar Yeah, I can completely see people wanting to remove the gimmick. It doesn't really effect Fracture's alt mode, but Drift gets one big hole when he's the car. I think their alt modes are half way decent, Hasbro/Takara could have put a little more attention to detail in the robot modes, but I guess that's what they're doing with this whole series.

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Andrew Chavez Thanks! I try to be fair and as a collector the little voice in my head is making me get all of the mini-cons, but so far that's as far as it goes for this wave of toys. The little dudes are pretty cool though!

BUMBLEME84 Thanks man! Looking back I wish I had compared him against Leader Class Megatron because they are so similarly fantastic sculps and alt modes, while their transformations couldn't be more different. Megatron is like 7 steps and UM is 26, but they both look fantastic. Would love an MP Ultra Magnus, but that one is going to cost a lost more than this one!

Justin Devoll I definitely like the feet, but the hands are a little gangling looking for me. They're better than the originals, but there's still something just not right.

Shawn T I haven't decided yet. I really am not a huge fan of buying just the repaints. Except for this years cartoon, I pretty much buy everything Hasbro produces so unless it's a retool like Silverbolt to Cyclonus I have a hard time spending the extra cash, that's why half of my Masterpieces or KOs!

Hey, thanks for responding! I just found an Air Raid a couple weeks ago, and I have to say, he's my favorite of the bunch. Slingshot isn't a bad figure, but once I got him in hand, the repaint was lackluster. I also have a tough time with repaints, unless it's a really good figure haha

See, why do you have to say things like that, now I'm thinking I might HAVE to get him!

Hey, your money haha what's one more Aerial Bot to the collection?

kfki I was suspecting that. I have multiple KO masterpieces along with some of the actual Hasbro releases and ALL of them have been very tight in their transformations and pinning. I still think this one is great for the money, but out of Smokescreen, Redalert and the other variations of those cars, this one with tabbing the arms and feet although it works perfectly fine for displaying purposes is slightly off if you want to play with it - but that said, it's easy to put the tabs back into place.