Removing a broken arm from a torso?

[adhdlama]

Hi, first time poster long time lurker.

I have a Haldir Minifigure together with my Helm's Deep set that I was fiddling with, and when I was turning his left arm it was stuck more than usual, and when I added a little more force it just broke off in the middle. I've never been through anything like this, and on a relatively new figure as well. Dumbfounded I tried to move it around a little more, and another piece gracefully breaks off the arm... (It feels like it's made of flour)

Now the Haldir figure is not a completely inexpensive figure, so I thought I'll take the arm of one of my Elrond figs and attach it to Haldir's torso. But that of course meant that I had to detach what was left of it.
The rest of it was difficult to grab hold off with my fingers, so I tried to detach it with my teeth which broke off the last part (In retrospect, what did I think would happen?).

Now I'm at a loss, there might be something suitable to put inside the torso that'll make me able to push it out from there. Have any of you been through something similar? 

Kind Regards 

 

 

 

 

Edited September 29, 2019 by adhdlama

[JopieK]

Can you reach it from the other side with a drill or something? Otherwise try to drill this side little bij little from the central hole of the arm remnants and carefully try to pry out trough that hole.

[1963maniac]

Can you carefully remove the remainder of the outside of the arm with a safety blade? Then push the rest with a bar through to the inside of the torso?

Edited September 29, 2019 by 1963maniac

[shadefoundry]

This happened to me a while back with my Bard minifigure from one of the hobbit sets. I took a small pair of pliers to it and managed to fudge the piece out, but ended up with a few scratches on that part of the torso. If you go with this method you're going to need to be very careful, and I would recommend a really small pair of pliers like you would use to repair a really small electronic.

[adhdlama]

I tried to grab hold of the arm by putting a metal bar (in this case a screwdriver with a pointy, but not sharp, end) through the hole and nudge it out, but it broke apart to the degree that it fell back into the torso and out. Thanks for all your responses! Haldir sends his regards 

[MAB]

Of you are going to use pliers, then put some foam rubber in the jaws, it helps stop scratching.