Vintage Toy Restoration – R2-D2
Time for a fix that I get asked to show all the time. How to repair the clicker inside a vintage Kenner R2-D2 and R5-D4. I’d been pondering how to do this for a while and finally thought of a way it could be easily fixed to make his dome click again.
Dave is the mastermind behind Toy Polloi, a YouTube channel established in 2014 to offer repair tutorials and restoration tips for vintage toy lines such as Star Wars, Transformers, Mego, Masters of the Universe, Micronauts, Six Million Dollar Man, Action Man, G.I. Joe, and more. Visit the Toy Polloi YouTube channel to discover the full library of tutorials for vintage toy collectors and toy enthusiasts.
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