Replacing washers in adult Sea Ponies?

[Spoosh]

Has anyone attempted to replace a nasty, decaying Sea Pony washer before? (Actually, there seem to be two inside the sea pony in question.) If so, where did you find it, and do you remember the exact size of washer you bought? I could eyeball a replacement, but would prefer something precise.

Oh Sea Ponies. Must you get so nasty inside? It is as if you wish to produce your own bile. Silly creatures, you are plastic.

I almost prefer this Wave Dancer without the washers; she's so light!

Any help is greatly appreciated!

 

[Angelus]

No advice sir, but seapony innards always make me chuckle...

I still remember somebody's horror story about opening up a seapony, and out fell a seapony shaped chunk of nastiness.

 

[dungeonmeister]

Sea pony

Yuk!
I don't even dare to go look at my poor girls now - they did spend a bit of time in the bath.....

 

[Spoosh]

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LOL, that's pretty much what I got when slicing the head off my new (and supposedly "excellent") Wave Dancer. Things turned from a beautiful facade to a messy, stain-y horror. Goop, gunk, and a dead beetle.

But now she's clean inside. And so lightweight she'd fly away come autumn.

 

[snowflakerocks]

sea ponies

You found a dead bug in a sea pony?
Icky.
*is having nightmares*

 

[Baggins Lover]

I think all sea ponies that acually got played with have this problem. The 2 I got from the car boot sale (see show and tell) look amazing from the outside, but open them up and they are black!! (well not anymore cos they had a 'proper' bath!!) I think you can replace the weights, but I don't know what to use. Who is it that has the site about sea ponies? I'm sure she has some suggestions on there.

 

[whizzer19]

Hi Spoosh! I have had a couple tips that I posted on my 'FAQ' page. The first was to use one of the teardrop shaped plain metal fishing weights, the second was to use a small glass marble. I don't know what specific weights were used for either, though. I personally haven't replaced any of the washers in mine, although I have taken almost all of them out.

Pretty much all the info I have about that kind of stuff is on the FAQ page, accessible through the link in my sig.

And yeah, those washers and sea pony insides in general can be nasty, nasty, nasty!!