# Tuning a Northstar

**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [September 22, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079 "2012-09-22T12:12:31Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 12:12pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/1 "2012-09-22T12:12:31Z")

</div>

How do you do it?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### 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: [September 22, 2012, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/2 "2012-09-22T15:33:17Z")

</div>

You can tune the axle placement.

> **[How to tune a yo-yo with a hex bolt axle](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,17790.0.html)**
>
> This is a hex head bolt: Many yo-yos, especially those older ones, use this type of axle. The Freehand Zero and almost all plastic Duncan yo-yos, the One Drop Project, and others all use this type of axle. To tune a yo-yo with a hex bolt axle all...

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Yummy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yummy/32/14065_2.png) [@Yummy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yummy)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 4:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/3 "2012-09-22T16:48:05Z")

</div>

If Northstars use the same axle setup as Protostars (which I presume that they do), you are going to want [this guide for tuning yo-yos with setscrew axles](http://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,9488.0.html).

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![Trace](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/trace/32/620097_2.png) [@Trace](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Trace)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 7:04pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/4 "2012-09-22T19:04:00Z")

</div>

Yeah I think it depends on the generation of the Northstar because the older ones came with a nut and bolt but the newer ones have the hex axles it looks like.

 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/e/f/7/ef7a0da314d36bb311ba18bbfc61772445f308fc.jpeg)  
Older  
 ![](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/3/8/5/385a887a806eedbb1482ec232e2af4b63908bfde.jpeg)  
Newer

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)
#### Post date: [September 22, 2012, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/5 "2012-09-22T19:11:03Z")

</div>

Genius. I’ll try it.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

### Author: ![wcrase](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/wcrase/32/80_2.png) [@wcrase](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/wcrase)
#### Post date: [September 23, 2012, 10:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/tuning-a-northstar/43079/6 "2012-09-23T10:17:04Z")

</div>

Worked. Thanks fellas.