# dark magic weight rings **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [September 21, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324 "2010-09-21T03:59:51Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 3:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/1 "2010-09-21T03:59:51Z")
How do you remove the weight rings from a dark magic? ---
**Author:** ![yoyoz1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoz1/32/388_2.png) [@yoyoz1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoz1)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 9:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/2 "2010-09-21T09:54:44Z")
Why would you want to do that? If your case is that your DM is completely broken and cant be fixed try this: Put the yoyo in mineral spirits, it will disolve the plastic but not the rims. ---
**Author:** ![d4rqk0n3](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/d4rqk0n3/32/411_2.png) [@d4rqk0n3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/d4rqk0n3)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 10:00am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/3 "2010-09-21T10:00:26Z")
If you are trying to remove them and put them onto something else, you cant, to remove them you need a lathe or some other cutting tool. Soaking your yoyo in Mineral Spirits is just an intelligent way to destroy your yoyo. IF you are going to call me a liar about reattaching the rings, ask Icthus. ---
**Author:** ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 12:27pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/4 "2010-09-21T12:27:59Z")
Yeah, it’s a broken DM. I just want to remove the rings and see if I can make something else with them. Thanks for the tip. ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:05pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/5 "2010-09-21T13:05:53Z")
> [@yoyoz1](#): > > Put the yoyo in mineral spirits, it will disolve the plastic but not the rims. Ehhh, I don’t think so. Acetone or lacquer thinner will cause it to dissolve, but mineral spirits, probably not. ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:09pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/6 "2010-09-21T13:09:50Z")
Mineral spirits would probably work, but very slowly, and then you risk inhaling plastic…If you don’t know, that’s bad. Just break the plastic with a hammer and screwdriver or something. ---
**Author:** ![Mi1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mi1/32/626_2.png) [@Mi1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mi1)\ **Post date:** [September 21, 2010, 1:47pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/7 "2010-09-21T13:47:44Z")
The yoyo is broken? Um… smash it? May I ask whats broken about it? Perhaps we can fix it. ---
**Author:** ![BB1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bbe5ce/32.png) [@BB1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/BB1)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 12:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/8 "2010-09-22T00:30:23Z")
i cut it in 4ths w a dremml then put it in a vice took a hammer and a srew driver and put it on each piece and popped it out ---
**Author:** ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/9 "2010-09-22T03:34:33Z")
I was thinking of doing something similar.  I’m no chemist but i suspect melting the plastic with chemicals could put off some nasty fumes. > [@d4rqk0n3](#): > > If you are trying to remove them and put them onto something else, you cant, to remove them you need a lathe or some other cutting tool. Soaking your yoyo in Mineral Spirits is just an intelligent way to destroy your yoyo. IF you are going to call me a liar about reattaching the rings, ask Icthus. I don’t know why you’d think I’d call you a liar.  I don’t know you beyond your posts on here which are generally good.  However, I had a spare beat DM that i tried to recess and I trashed the bearing seat by pushing the tool too hard.  I have a Mosquito I recessed and nothing to lose so I thought I’d try this: > **[Mosquito + DM rings = New Breed xD](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,17876.0.html)** > > http://img205.imageshack.us/img205/4923/pictyaface020.jpg By born2curl at 2010-07-10 http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/1315/pictyaface019.jpg By born2curl at 2010-07-10 http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/6112/pictyaface018.jpg By born2curl at... ---
**Author:** ![Apetrunk](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/apetrunk/32/148_2.png) [@Apetrunk](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Apetrunk)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/10 "2010-09-22T11:29:06Z")
Waylon, please don’t double post. There is a button in the top right corner of each of your posts that says “modify post” that you can use. Thanks. Also, if you already have a reply made but wanted to add a quote from somebody else, you can click where you want the quote and scroll down on the page to where that other post is and click “insert quote” and it’ll put that quote in where you clicked. (Just in case you or whoever reading this didn’t know.) ---
**Author:** ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 2:00pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/dark-magic-weight-rings/19324/11 "2010-09-22T14:00:20Z")
Thanks for the info, Brian. i’ll remember that.