How To Care For Your Beyblade

Your Beyblade is a piece of plastic, subject to wear and tear, not to mention that thier sole purpose is to damage and defeat others... you must take good care of your Beyblades if you want to make them last.

Here are some tips for taking care of your equipment in general:

- Get starter packs if possible, they come with extra ripcords and launchers. Your launchers internal gears and outer casings will wear down, and maybe even break. Having extras will give you extra confidence in knowing if you pull hard enough to break one, you will have extras.

- Straighten Your ripcords, the straighter they are, the easyer they go through your launcher, causing less wear and tear on both. See How To Straighten A Ripcord.

- Don't fall for that "tip" of turning your launcher in the reverse direction without a ripcord in it. It just wears down the pegs inside the launcher to the point of not gripping.

 

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Here are some tips for taking care of your Beyblades:

- Whenever you can buy extra parts, buy them, whether they are spin gears, attack rings, weight disks, or blade bases, even launchers. Things can break, even metal weight disks, its good to have extras, and even doubles.

- Save your sprues/part trees. Sprues (aka. part trees) are the plastic frame that your Beyblades parts come attached to. If you want, saw them into 3-5 cm sticks. These are useful for everything, from creating a plastic axle, to the next tip.

- Some lubricants can melt, disform, soak, or wear down your parts. If you have moving parts, and you want to lubricate them... coat 2 of your sprue peices in your lubricant in question, let them sit for the night, and rub the together back and forth. After about 1 minute of rubbing, use a cotton swab, and brush the lubricated areas. Look for the plastic colour. If you see a large amount of colour, don't use the lubricant. *Note: after 1 minute of rubbing with any lubricant, you will find some colour in the lubricant, just be careful.

- Don't freeze or overheat your parts for prolonged periods of time. This just wrecks plastic and metal.

- Polish and wipe down your Beystadiums, whether they are metal woks or plastic Beystadiums, dust does affect your blade, it could cause your blades base's tip to wear out prematurely, or to move in erradic patterns.

- Treat your Beyblades with respect, try not to drop, step on, launch insanely, and using it as a replacement leg for your chair. Prevent too much wear and tear on your blades.

- Super glue to Beyblades is like duct tape to everything else. It can fix some attack rings, blade bases, spin gears, and bit chips from cracking. Be aware that some peices (like Kai auto change/balancer's attack ring) are so fragile that not even super glue can fix it.

- If you slice through your Beystadium, or just cut it barely, just use some scotch tape on the underside to hold the peices together, while you use super glue, or plastic cement (brush on kind in a bottle) to "weld" the crack together.

- Try to get one of those fingerless gloves, like Tyson on the show. You can prevent some cuts to your hands. They also give you a better grip on your launcher and ripcord. Leather gloves work best, like drummers gloves, or golf gloves with the fingers cut off (with your hand out of the glove) and sew the seams with a edge of fabric of denim.