Thread: Bucky HELP needed!

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Hello all:
I just received my first Bucky in the mail, thanks to the member here who alerted us to the big blowout sale back in March. As it was a fourth quality model, i was expecting to do some repairs, but I've gotten myself into a twist over something that should be easy: I sat my new bony friend up in a chair and unscrewed the hook from his head, then removed the skull from the spine. Now, for the life of me, I can't seem to get the skull back on - the long bolt sticking up from the spine just doesn't seem to reach out of the crown of the skull, no matter what way I twist & turn. I didn't do anything (that I am aware of) to push the bolt down the spine, or shorten something somewhere - is there a trick to reattaching this headbone???
Please help - my wife is just as upset by this as I am!!

Thanks for listening!

Yeah...I had mine come off while it was hanging to corpse! What a mess that made...try getting it back on with we latex and nylon everywhere!

Anyhow:

All those little rubber spacer pieces between the vertebre need to be compressed. When you unscrewed it, that compression was lost.

Unfortunately, I haven't found a way to actually make that compression happen, and I've found the easiest way to get the head back on is to remove a couple those spacers and/or vertebre.

ugh, Iwas afraid that rubber had something to do with it! My friend already seemed to have no neck when his skull was on - I'd hate to compress him even more!
Thanks for the sympathetic ear, Ox, I will try that later. Next I have to attach that forearm that was detached in the box- I see how to do it, but geez, it looks like a trial...

Check the tailbone / inner pelvis area, if it has the main rod with threads, back off the bolt as far as you can, you should have enough room to reattach head with less resistance.
When head back on, then re tighten the nut on tailbone / pelvis a bit to were it was & then finish tightening back up bolt on skull. Had this prob a couple times & figured out this was the best way.

Just think of this as an exercise to "bone up" for the more complexed prop builds....!! & welcome to "Adams family"

I have run in to this same problem with my bucky's, so I am interested in how to fix this... I have just placed the head on the upper rod and sat them in chairs:

I have had great success by doing what Dark Lord suggested. I loosen the nut at the bottom of the spine and "sit" the bucky's metal rod on a hard surface. That will let you snug the spine back down and let the shaft stick out enough so you can screw the nut on the head.
A bucky is a tough long haul prop. they can be re purposed every year, or dedicated to permanent display. They take a beating an keep on haunting.

I also do what Dark Lord suggested. Freaked me out the first time i did it too. Its an easy fix though.

Yup, did the same too. lol Guess it's a haunters "must do". I had mine laying down on the floor and I wanted to see how well my 3 axis would fit. I backed off my lower screw too and then braced it and was able to get the skull back on. It freaked me out a lot but, was lucky to get it back on.

Just remember, NEVER EVER remove the belly button screw,..........