My G5 repair job

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Click the picture above to walk through the repair job I did on my G5 to make it playable again.

I received this yoyo in a trade for a Legacy because I wanted something to mess with. The first few picture show just how beat up it was, and how bad the wall around the bearing was torn up from the previous owner using some pliers in an awful way. To start things off I had to get it apart completely, and living in the small town I do, I was unable to easily find the hardware to double nut the axle off, but I managed to find the right ones at my local Atwoods.

I then sanded the offending areas with 320 grit sand paper to smooth out the rough edges, and then stepped down to 420 to get it just a bit smoother. I don't have the pictures of my silicone job, but it looks like it is going to hold up just fine.

This is just to show that a little maintenance can go a long way into making a yoyo playable again. Enjoy.