Give your yo-yo a blast finish using your dryer

[MarkD (Mk1 Yoyos)]

@adamantiumpops

My toddler is helping.

yes… YES!!!

[adamantiumpops (Banana Hands (Chris, not Adam))]

Half comparison. 20 minutes in the dryer and about 30 minutes of on/off manual shaking (with ample inappropriate jokes about the arm motion).

[codinghorror]

So far so good! You need about another hour of tumbling (per side!) so I’d fix that dryer if I were you

[adamantiumpops (Banana Hands (Chris, not Adam))]

IDK man I kinda like how it looks now. The wife disagrees, lol.

[adamantiumpops (Banana Hands (Chris, not Adam))]

I may not know about art, but I know what I like!

Ricochet I got from @chaosgow is up next.

It’s like a janky shake-weight. So main gains…

Ok I didn’t do a ‘before’ pic because I’m impatient. Here’s the ‘after’! Anyone know how to get a halfspec in this bad boy?

[codinghorror]

@codinghorror

I can’t tell if there’s additional vibe, I should have tested it before I put it in. If there is, it’s really hard to tell, like hold your fingernail in the spinning center area and wait quite a while and judge kinda deal. I am thinking no, not really? But if you are a vibe fanatic I would probably avoid this treatment just on principle.

I brought my stonewashed one for @docpop to try and he confirmed, this does add a little vibe. He tests differently than I do so this is independent confirmation. It is nothing that would affect play in any way (not sure if the average player would notice unless I called it out) but it is there.

If your titanium is already truly perfectly glass smooth I would not go this route.

[beherenow]

You could get aluminum matching stonewash pens.

[DocPop]

Those look fantastic!

[issimoyo]

Had anyone tried this with 6061?

I have a project yoyo on the way; thinking of trying to stonewash it using this method.

Obv, aluminum is much softer than titanium, so I’m planning on using a container with less empty space and checking it more often.

[adamantiumpops (Banana Hands (Chris, not Adam))]

Maybe smaller media? Idk seems like if it does this to Ti, it’s gonna really fudge the shoot out of any aluminum.

[smileypants707]

Whoa whoa whoa, watch the dang diddly language there Nedward Flanders.

[SpyseaRice (Jon)]

Unrelated: Anyone ever tried this with their strings to break them in?

[Legit_yoyostrings (Landis Johnston)]

im going to try this

[eternalmetal]

Why would you ever do this to a pristine new string?

[issimoyo]

First attempt - I’m pretty happy with the result. I messed up masking the bearing seat when I was stripping the ano, so I ended up doing a little sanding/polishing too.

I’ll prob polish again and re-stonewash at some point, when I’m feeling crafty.

[AlmightyOx]

Acid etch and stonewash on an Anomaly Yoyos Euphonious. Super fun process and great results

[PCaliyoyos (Peyton Cali)]

can WD-40 strip the Ano from a yoyo? i wanna get an N6 to experiment on and i’m curious if i could use WD-40

[MarkD (Mk1 Yoyos)]

@PCaliyoyos

can WD-40 strip the Ano from a yoyo? i

No. You’d need something caustic like oven cleaner.

[PCaliyoyos (Peyton Cali)]

Ah ok thanks Mark!!

[PCaliyoyos (Peyton Cali)]

@codinghorror

very small rocks was not a good idea, sand is out of the question)

wait… sand or rocks? which one is better?