Hi, my name's Curtis Enlow and on behalf of Expert Village, I'm going to show you how to plan, setup and equip a work area for radio controlled models. Now this is a set of ball link pliers. As you can see, there's a couple different size cutouts, one larger, one smaller and then on the inside of the jaws, there's a pin right here. Now the way that these work is you take your ball link, you locate the inside part of the hole, which is on this side, you place it on there like that. The ball link pliers go with the small cutout under the ball, the large cutout on the outside, allowing the screw, the fastener holding the ball onto the part to pass through. And then with making sure that its aligned on there as carefully as possible, you gently squeeze and the ball link pops on. Now, properly fitted, you should be able to put the ball link part on there, tap it and it should gradually fall. Now this one's fairly stiff. Now we need a little bit more give in that. There should be no resistance and on this one, there is a fair amount. Its on there pretty stiffly. So, that brings in the next tool that we're going to use. This is a ball link sizing tool. What it allows you to do is go inside that link and actually slightly enlarge it small amounts at a time. There's actually a little cutout here and one part of that is raised up slightly more than the other so that gives it a cutting surface. So we're going to loosen up this ball link a little bit until it fits just fine for our purposes. Now, using the ball link pliers, I'm going to remove this ball link and its just the opposite process. This is where that pin on the inside of the ball link pliers is going to come in handy. I'm going to slide the larger fork underneath the ball link, place the pin directly on top of that fastener and I hope you can see this, but I think once you start to put this in use, you'll see how this works. Then gently compress the pliers 'till the ball link pops off. Ok, now having popped the ball link onto the sizing tool, we're going to go ahead and resize this. Now you want to go very slowly, very carefully and you don't want to remove too much material from this. Its better to try it, fit the ball link back onto the part, if its still too tight, then come back and try it again, but don't try and take off too much at one time. Now the best way to do this is you're going to gradually kind of work the ball joint up and down on the tool as you slowly turn the tool. That way it guarantees that you get an equal amount of material removed from all around the link. Its cut into that a little bit, remove some of the material, I'm going to pop it off with the ball link pliers the same way we did it on the part itself. Inspect the part, make sure there is no material left in there that's going to cause issues. And then get the part. Use the ball link pliers once again. Try and get you a better view here and show you how it pops on.
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