How to get out a stuck axle without breaking it?

Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
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As the title says. Please help. Thanks

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you can post photos?

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the best method would be to tighten two nuts on the axle, tighten them together, and then unscrew the nuts with a wrench.
if this is not possible you can wrap multiple layers of a strip of cloth or wrap rounds of electrician tape on the axis and then take it with pliers and unscrew … clearly not over tighten the clamps, you can strip the threads.
if you have doubt no that axis reuse! buy a new one in ironmongery (easily found and cost nothing) … an axis with ruined thread when screwed onto the shell you will ruin … and you throw it all away!!!

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As persson suggests, the double nut method works well. Check it out here (along with other useful info): Useful modification & maintenance guides - Axles,Clean, repair, tune, fix yoyos

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Wrap the axle around some cloth, then use pliers to twist it out.

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Thanks guys, the double nut method worked very well.

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