Side note: these are all methods to snug up an axle. If the snugness of an axle isn’t what’s causing your vibe, it’s not like these are magic “add to cure vibe” solutions or anything.
My understanding of tuning out vibe is not the snugness of the axle, but the alignment of the yoyo halves. By adjusting and fixing the axel in one half, it changes the alignment of the other half. Going on the hunt for the alignment that makes the 2 halves vibrate least is the tuning process as I understand it. Adding the tape or loctite alone will not fix the vibe if the cause is the weight imbalance between misaligned halves…
Apparently, there might be vibe caused by a loose axle, but this seems really unlikely to me, once the yoyo is tightened. Does it happen?
I ordered a tube of blue and a tube of purple. The purple is designed for these smaller sized screws. I also have Teflon tape around the house, so I’ll be trying them all. I’ll write up my findings about which worked better for me when I get around to tuning.