# Ding/Scratch 

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805>\
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\
**Created:** [April 22, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805 "2009-04-22T04:15:15Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![1337pikachu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/96bed5/32.png) [@1337pikachu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/1337pikachu)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 4:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805/1 "2009-04-22T04:15:15Z")

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Well today I hit my Dark magic on the ground by accident and it made a ding/scratch, but it didnt go through the metal or anything, but i was wondering if there is a way to like coat it so it looks like nothing is there (the ding/scratch doesnt affect play of the yoyo anyways) I asked my friend and he said to use wax and polish it, but i dont know 😛

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**Author:** ![kenz\_mori](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kenz_mori/32/116_2.png) [@kenz\_mori](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kenz_mori)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 5:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805/2 "2009-04-22T05:40:49Z")

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in my personal preferance I use scotch brite pad and steel wool in the scatches and dings I had in my DM

First I use the scotch brite pad and scrub all over the dings/scratches (but I scrub all the parts of the metal rings) just to give it a rough scratch then I use steel wool to smoothen it out ( until desired smoothness ;D)

After that, just to add some bling, I just metal polished the rims  
then  
TADA…Looks like a brand new DM was born

hope it help

-KZ

P.S.  
I am not reliable if something bad happens to your yo-yos its just how I do it, But I think it would not really affect much cuz I have tried it. But if you scrub very very very much hard we dont know (lol) But I think nothing bad will happen if you just scrub evenly around the metal rims ( I only tried this method for the metal rims my DM have )

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**Author:** ![1337pikachu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/96bed5/32.png) [@1337pikachu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/1337pikachu)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 1:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805/3 "2009-04-22T13:42:47Z")

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Il try that thanks! 😃

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**Author:** ![kenz\_mori](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kenz_mori/32/116_2.png) [@kenz\_mori](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kenz_mori)\
**Post date:** [April 22, 2009, 2:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/ding-scratch/1805/4 "2009-04-22T14:23:38Z")

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you could also just try polishing it just to make it shiny

I just used the scotch brite pads just to remove all the nasty scratches ( I really mean nasty) in my DM and steel wool to smoothen it out

but if u got it correcty u might end up like this:  
(got this picture from another forum from a polishing guide)  
The one on the left is the polished one and the one on the right was not polished yet.