In this video I am going to teach you how to setup your Luminator for unresponsive play.
A lot of guys, when they talk about one-handed yoyoing they mean unresponsive one-handed
play exclusively. A lot of guys they never use their one-handed yoyos in a responsive
way which is how we show a lot of our yoyo tricks. When you buy a Luminator it is setup
for responsive play but this modification that I am going to show you is very easy and
then you can use this for all the other kinds of tricks, the unresponsive tricks that a
lot of people are doing these days. When I show yoyo videos on YoTricks I may
mix some non-responsive tricks in with the string tricks and you will always know the
difference because I will be using this green yoyo with the blue caps for unresponsive tricks,
or tricks that are easier to learn with an unresponsive yoyo as opposed to the red yoyo
with blue caps that I use for most of the other tricks. And you can tell from the videos
as well if there's certain elements – you can start to get a feel for which tricks are
done in a non-responsive way. In this video I am going to teach you how
to setup your Luminator for that. You are going to need your Luminator. You are going
to need some Mineral Spirits. This is what I have been using. You can usually get this
in the paint section of a lot of different stores. That is what we are going to use to
clean the bearing. You will also need some ultra-thin break pads. These break pads, they
are clear, which is why is looks like I'm just holding a piece of paper, these are made
out of silicone, and we just found that these work really really well with the Luminators
and so these are the kind that we have in our store right now. There are different break
pads that are this size and this thickness. We have tried a couple and these are what
we like the best. If we find some others that we like then those will be in the store as
well. The mineral spirits, you want to make sure to put that in a glass container because
it is corrosive to plastic. I have found that glass is really easy to work with so if you
can find one of those... and I also, when I set this up, I usually have a toothpick
and a paper towel to help me fish the bearing out of there.
The first thing you are going to want to do is take your Luminator apart. You are going
to want to take the bearing out and you are going to want to drop it right into the mineral
spirits just like that. Sometimes I will take my toothpick and just move the bearing around
just to make sure the mineral spirits are really getting in there. What this is going
to do is it is going to clean out all of the grease and anything else that might be in
the bearing that's in there. So that is what it is in there for. Normally I let it sit
in there for about an hour. Obviously in this video I am not going to do that. That is the
right amount of time. Maybe half-way through you can use your toothpick to just flip the
bearing over to make sure that the mineral spirits are getting all the way through it.
For the most part you can just let it sit in there.
Once that is going you are going to want to take your Luminator and you are going to want
to take these break pads off. I have showed you how to do this in a different video so
I am just going to do that with one half. You are just going to want to push it away
from the side of the yoyo there. You want to pinch it and pull it off very slowly. That
will help to get all the glue off the bottom as well. If you pull it slow enough then the
entire break pad will come off in one piece. You can see it is very easy like that. Get
rid of those. And now you want to take your new break pads and just peel them right off
this card here. That can be somewhat of a challenge sometimes, but it is never too hard.
There we go, and we will pop out the center. These will fit right into the same break pad
recess as the other break pads that you just took out.
You may find when you put these in, they might stretch a little bit. While you are pulling
them apart or trying to stick them in there. It may fold over onto itself at one point.
I don't think that you can probably see that in this video, but that doesn't really seem
to affect play. Once you get it in there just push it all the way down and it will be pretty
flat and that will be good enough. Of course you want to do the same thing with the other
side. If you are going to be doing unresponsive play, I also recommend including in the side
of the yoyo which you can also get in our store, we have another video about how to
put those in. Unresponsive play is about getting ultra-long sleep times, and so this will help
your yoyos sleep a lot better if you do that. Once you have the break pads in and once the
bearing has been in the mineral spirits for about an hour just take your toothpick and
fish it right out. I put it right on a paper towel. And you want to get as much of that
out of there as you can. So I just fold it over and sometimes I even shake it around
a little bit. That gets the majority of the mineral spirits out of there. Do it a couple
of times. Another thing that I do is I let it sit for another hour which will allow the
rest of it to get out, because, like I said, it can be corrosive to plastic so you want
to make sure that that is completely dry when you actually put it right back in your yoyo.
Once it is all dried up, after about an hour you can put it right back in your yoyo. Put
it right back together, and your yoyo should be ready for unresponsive play.