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Well alrighty then. With burned Elites I've generally found you can gently rub the burned parts off with your thumb, or use one of those big pink pencil erasers to clean them up a bit. But as I said, my Elites generally don't burn much.

I noticed Flat said he cleans his flywheels. There's two schools of thought about that. Some say the blue build-up adds tackiness to the otherwise smooth surface of the flywheel, and the blaster will burn less over time because it "grips" better. I don't know if there's data on that, but it seems plausible. I clean off the build-up when I'm servicing blasters just because I'm anal-retentive.

The other interesting thing I've noticed is that flywheels with teeth, like the Worker variety, don't burn darts at all. Zero. I've got a set on a Stryfe and they're as white as the day they came out of the box. So there's at least some merit to that build-up theory.