Replacing Eyes In Vintage Vinyl Doll
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Replacing eyes in vintage vinyl doll. First remove the old sleep eyes. The eyes wont work for the composition early cissy or other weighted eyes dolls. With the weight positioned properly the doll s eyes should be closed. Wait another 10 minutes and then work the weight back and forth again to ensure the eyes do not freeze up in the plaster.
Doll sleep moving eyes 20mm brown vinyl doll eyes replace repair fix doll making. Choose brown blue or green in sizes 6mm 27mm. These are for modern dolls mid 1950s present. Here is one pair of sleep eyes for dolls.
The berenguers have soft vinyl so you can heat the vinyl around the eye using warm hot water or even a hair dryer. Many 1930s shirley temple dolls have them. Take out the eyeball or push from the front to push it into the head. I don t believe the hairdryer trick or the oil trick which could make things worse works for this problem.
This is for dolls with vinyl eye pockets. Thanks for the info about cloudy eyes on vintage hard plastic and vinyl dolls. While the vinyl is still warm pop the new eye in. Then pop the eye out of the socket by pushing from inside the head.
There is an eye issue with older composition dolls that people call blown eyes crystallized eyes or flat eyes. Take off the doll s head and slice the back of the eye socket using a small scissors or exacto blade. Make offer vintage german blue eye doll eyes 1 2 mint in box old stock. The 13 and 14mm sizes usually fit.
Free shipping on many items. There is an easier way that works with some dolls but not all of them.