Dr. Shivers

**tamster** · 08-14-2011,04:42 PM

Hi, I was offered a Dr. Shivers prop which I have been looking for a long time, only one problem with it is his eyes don't light up. Does anyone have this prop and had these problems? Is it fixable?

**ter_ran** · 08-14-2011,04:49 PM

Anything can be fixed if you are willing to invest the time and effort doing it the right way. Now I am not going to tell you to do this, but my shivers had the same problem and I just smacked the backside of its head and poof... They started working again... Once again I don't recommend this but it worked for me!

**Screaming Demons** · 08-14-2011,05:02 PM

Good old American ingenuity - if it doesn't work, get a bigger hammer!

**tamster** · 08-14-2011,05:08 PM

LOL! well I don't think a bigger hammer will do it, I like him too much, I also notice his beaker is not lighting either

**tamster** · 08-14-2011,05:25 PM

ok, I tried several times reattaching his head, still no light.......any other suggestions?

**BRISCOSHORSE** · 08-15-2011,07:23 AM

You have to take off his head and use a dremal cut a hole in the back of his head under the his hair and then fix the wires that are attached to his eyes. I had a friend help me with it, same thing happened to his mouth. we just had to re-solder the wires. When we cut the hole we cut it in one piece hot clued it back and glued his hair back down and you cant even tell.

**tamster** · 08-15-2011,02:16 PM

I came home from work and I bit the bullet, I took off his head and looked at the wires under his neck. wow whole whack of wires and sorted them. I turned on Dr. Shivers while having his head off to see the wires were stuck, pulled or ripped. Sure enough there was one white wire snapped off. I re-soldered the white wire together and wella his eyes lit up!!!! thank goodness it was just one wire LOL I did not have to mess with his eyes, they were moving so I did not have to cut a hole in his head.......

Thanks everyone for chiming in and trying to help me. Dr. Shivers is back in business.

**frenchy** · 08-16-2011,04:14 AM

Eh Great news Tamster i am very happy to hear he is still very alive and went to a good home to start a brand new life .
Hopefully the cup will light up too at some point
Frenchy

**tamster** · 08-16-2011,11:32 AM

Originally Posted by frenchy

Eh Great news Tamster i am very happy to hear he is still very alive and went to a good home to start a brand new life .
Hopefully the cup will light up too at some point
Frenchy

yup got the beaker going too, he is like brand new now. Everything works perfect