# PSA to everyone with sweaty palms

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**Category:** General Yo-Yo\
**Created:** [June 15, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/psa-to-everyone-with-sweaty-palms/427334 "2025-06-15T10:57:30Z")\
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**Author:** ![Hanker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hanker/32/628221_2.png) [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 10:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/psa-to-everyone-with-sweaty-palms/427334/1 "2025-06-15T10:57:30Z")

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Clean your yoyos with wet wipes or alcohol wipes when you are done playing with them. Be sure to use a dry tissue to remove the excess water too, as you want to remove the salt from your sweat that has dissolved into the water from the wipes.

Otherwise:

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Pitting corrosion sadness.

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Also, remove your strings from the yoyo to stop the bearing and response pad area from corroding, otherwise:

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More corrosion sadness.

I envy the people who don’t have sweaty palms, they have an easier time grinding too.

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**Author:** ![SlacKing](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5f8ce5/32.png) [@SlacKing](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlacKing)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 11:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/psa-to-everyone-with-sweaty-palms/427334/2 "2025-06-15T11:15:25Z")

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I don’t sweat a lot, but I obsessively wash my hands before and sometimes during play because I hate how any sweat or dirt on my hands increases friction between my skin and the string/yoyo. I’ve never heard of anyone having pitting as a result of this (sorry to see that’s the case for you). I’d recommend using Dawn and a little water to wipe it down, as baby wipes could leave residue and I worry alcohol might be too harsh over time (not an expert chemist by any means, though).

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**Author:** ![Hanker](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hanker/32/628221_2.png) [@Hanker](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Hanker)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2025, 11:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/psa-to-everyone-with-sweaty-palms/427334/3 "2025-06-15T11:29:52Z")

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I think this isn’t noticed by more people is because it takes years for the corrosion to appear. The Surveillance above is roughly 4 years old, and the Heist below is one of my very first yoyos, so it has been around for 7 years. I have a lot of other yoyos in my collection that have some form of corrosion as well, it’s just that these are the best and most obvious examples.

Appreciate the tip!