# Cleaning with STARTING FLUID!?!?

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cleaning-with-starting-fluid/5372>\
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\
**Created:** [August 14, 2009, 1:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cleaning-with-starting-fluid/5372 "2009-08-14T01:02:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![EvanB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/90ced4/32.png) [@EvanB](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/EvanB)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2009, 1:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cleaning-with-starting-fluid/5372/3 "2009-08-14T01:42:22Z")

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> [@gm user](#):
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> Good idea.
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> But to me, its just another alternative that won’t work as well as lighter fluid.
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> I bet if you can get all this stuff you’re experimenting with, you can get Lighter Fluid or Mineral Spirits, the stuff that you know works.

> [@Cleaning my bearing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/cleaning-my-bearing/5268/14):
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> Then where does evolution of yoyoing go if we dont try new things?
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> Zippo and charcoal lighter fluid works fine.
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> Apetrunk, Mineral spirits was made to clean paint brushes and painting equipment. Not for yoyo’s.  
> I am with you that its the best right now but if we don’t try to further yoyoing and its concepts and modding ideas then it will become stale.

We should try new things for modding and stuff. If we don’t try new things, we arn’t going to learn! Maybe some of the stuff we haven’t used works better than Mineral Spirits or Lighter Fluid. We need people who are going to try new things and not do the ordinary, that is why I like what Darth did here.

Darth, excellent discovery. Way to take a risk and get a reward.

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