# Phenom bad anodizing quality?

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**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\
**Created:** [December 31, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/phenom-bad-anodizing-quality/71658 "2014-12-31T10:56:46Z")\
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**Author:** ![rizki\_yoist](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/rizki_yoist/32/7925_2.png) [@rizki\_yoist](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/rizki_yoist)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 10:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/phenom-bad-anodizing-quality/71658/1 "2014-12-31T10:56:46Z")

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So I got a second hand Phenom, dark blue with gold ring. It still has original worn out sticker so I decided to swap it. Since it left sticky glue inside the grooves, I put lighter fluid and used tissue to clean them up, the thing is the anodizing color got faded and I can clearly see the tissue went blue ??? which is ridiculous. I thought lighter fluid shouldn’t affect anodizing at all since like every single other yoyo I have (I occasionally clean them with lighter fluid but nothing happened before). I thought anodizing won’t be affected by solvent? also no, this is definitely not paint.  
Also even rubbing tissue on the inside (under the cap) after I removed it also turn the tissue blue-ish, that is without any solvent.

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**Author:** ![kadabrium](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/kadabrium/32/1522_2.png) [@kadabrium](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/kadabrium)\
**Post date:** [December 31, 2014, 1:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/phenom-bad-anodizing-quality/71658/2 "2014-12-31T13:04:48Z")

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Idk  
A yyf proton i used to have the same problem, but the phenom ti was fine  
I v seen auldeys with this as well

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**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:** [December 31, 2014, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/phenom-bad-anodizing-quality/71658/3 "2014-12-31T16:25:18Z")

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Anodizing is a chemical dye process so it’s conceivable that it could come off a bit. Apparently it didn’t etch very deep. I’ve had that happen occasionally on various things.