Here are some tips for tuning and maintaining your YoYos

This page shows how to remove a YYJ bearing using an ordinary electrician’s tool.  This tool is cheap, easily found in most hardware departments or hardware stores, and very effective.  If you (or a family member) are handy, you might just have one around the house.  This works for both large and small YYJ bearings.

How to Remove a YYJ Bearing

Here are some tips on how to install shims into (and remove them from) your YYJ yo.

How to Install & Remove YYJ Shims

Here is a tip on how to maintain your YYJ “Yo-Rings.”

How to Maintain Your YYJ Yo-Rings

Here’s a tool that is really great for untangling and unknotting your string without taking apart your yo.  It is also great for removing shims from your YYJ yo.  The tool is cheap, available in the Wal-Mart pharmacy/ toothbrush section (or your favorite pharmacy).  It is small enough to carry around in your pocket, on your backpack, in your yo case, or wherever.  I carry mine everywhere.

String Tools

Here are some different kinds of finger tapes that I have found to be especially effective.

Several Types of Finger Tape

Here are some inexpensive and practical yoyo carrying cases.

Some Carrying Cases