Acetone melts PC so be extremely careful to make sure it’s 100% dried, and that you don’t splash it on the yoyo
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Absolutely you could replace the alcohol with acetone, however the petroleum based solvents break down greases that alcohol and acetone won’t touch. Then the alc/ace cleans the petro off along with everything it gathered up and evaporates quickly to a clean surface.
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Including: @SlowThrow
Interesting, I had my order of operations flipped. That might explain why my very, VERY responsive M1K Path was still responsive even after an acetone bath
Now I know
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Side Note: Kinda annoyed that most all of the fluids needed to clean bearings are some of the most abrasive, foul smelling fluids in commercial existence
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I tried them all but now I use dawn dish soap and water, cleanest bearings of my life.
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I hate the smell of Dawn, but if it’ll clean my bearings and not smell foul or require special disposal care, I’m down. Thank you for the tip!
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I just put them on the end of a paintbrush and scrub the soap in with a toothbrush/dish brush, then dry and blow the air out with a datavac but you use canned air or you can air dry them. Or put it in a washcloth and use centrifugal force to dry it, which does work but it’s kind of annoying.
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This is interesting - can you share more details? do you soak in Dawn/Water or scrub with fingers/dawn and rinse? How do you dry them?
EDIT: I see you gave more details above - hadn’t read down that far when I Replied.
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No soaking, I just spin the soap in/scrub until it feels like there aren’t any particles in there.
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This too.
If you put lube in that wide mr85 bearing it’ll be responsive but not sure how it would play,
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Make sure to dry your bearings I’ve rusted bearings I washed in soap and water and then stored wet on accident
Desiccant in the bearing storage spot is a good way to solve this btw
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I pulled off Kwjybo on a stock Plasm, it wasn’t easy, but it is doable. I only really use mine for 0A though
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Never thought to use mineral spirits then acetone but that makes senses. I’ve always just used acetone
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plasm is fine for responsive 1a imo you just need a thin string. kwyjes for days
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+1 on the dish detergent train prior to acetone. works wonders for me
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Awesome, will be picking up some thin strings stat, tyty
I’m talking like cold fusion, McBride’s Roller Coaster, Skin the Gerbil stuff - nothing seriously crazy.
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Yeah - I need to find a nice good thin string.
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Skin the Gerbil stuff
nothing seriously crazy
Sure
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