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Q/A & Help Group 9 years, 8 months ago I’ve been putting off for a while and I kinda have an idea about how to do but it doesn’t hurt to ask you guys what you’d do. So, How would you go about attaching the ball joint to the hip? I can’t get a good grip with a drill, it keeps sliding off. I was thinking about heating up a nail and making a hole.
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So is this a broken part you’re trying to repair?
Best way is to drill straight through and attach the ball joint with a metal pin. Steel sewing pins are pretty good for this sort of thing – they’re tough, reasonably malleable, and easy to come by. They’re tough to cut, though…
If you’re having trouble drilling a hole through the ball joint, you can start by making a small divot in the end with a hobby blade.
Thanks tetsujin but it’s creating that small divot is what I’m having the problem doing.
try go through the end that broke maybe. In other words dripp into the cracked area. it shouldn’t be round there so you shouldn’t have the slipping problem hope that works for you.
err *drill*
Honestly I have. The drill just keeps slipping. I broke the original ball joint with too much lousy drilling.
What kind of drill are you using? Pin vise? And what size drill bit?
One thing I do when I need to drill at an odd angle, or the bit keeps slipping off target, is I’ll find an angle that’s easy to drill and go with that long enough to get the hole started, then switch to the angle I realy want to drill.
Though now that I think about it, you suggested maybe melting the hole… I doubt you’d be able to melt the entire hole but melting a small divot in the ball joint could be a good way to get the starter hole for drilling.
I think using a soldering iron to melt a small hole and then drill out is probably the easiest way of doing it. After my migraine is finished. LOL.