How to tighten up blue pants joints on legs and arms?

Does anyone have any tips of tightening up the joints on the blue pant model? I have a few whose legs and arms swivel willy nilly and there seems no way of tightening them up as they are out together differently to the old strung AM

Plumbers tape works really well. As you wind it around the arm and legs joints it disappears inside the joints. Works a treat, I have done it many times. Another method is to use cotton, following the same routine. Hope this helps buddy   

I use Dental Floss on the arms, makes him minty fresh. I also use a flat elastic on the hip ball joints wrapping it so it disappears up into his pants.

There's a comprehensive how to on AMHQ http://actionmanhq.co.uk/forum/showthread.php?t=3365&highlight=repair

great link cappy !   

Top Link, Can't thank you enough for this.

Am i correct in thinking that a re-strig will help with the hip joints?

I am not anywhere even remotely as experienced as Cappy when it come to Action Man stuff, but in my (limited) experience a re-string will sort out the early figure but not a blue pants body.

That is where the ptfe tape Dall referred to and the wide elastic Cappy mentioned come into play.

I think a blue pants hips are held on with a nylon / plastic piece rather than elastic like the early ones are.

PH5121 wrote:

I am not anywhere even remotely as experienced as Cappy when it come to Action Man stuff, but in my (limited) experience a re-string will sort out the early figure but not a blue pants body.

That is where the ptfe tape Dall referred to and the wide elastic Cappy mentioned come into play.

I think a blue pants hips are held on with a nylon / plastic piece rather than elastic like the early ones are.

You're quite correct there. BP's aren't strung so the only way to tighten them is by tape and elastic.