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These are suggestions for getting the most out of your purchase. These "Tips and Tricks" come from customers like yourself and years of dealing with Devas in general.

First, to help your Deva last a great deal longer, your deva has a lot in common with your automobile. It sits out in all kinds of weather all year long providing beauty and contentment in all sorts of weather. To help protect your Deva. Coat it with a small amount of acrylic car wax. This need not be anything expensive and please do not use any abrasive polish, but a coating like this can help protect your Deva from weather, UV rays and high speed airborne particles such as dust or ice storms that may abrade your finish. Wax like this goes a long way in restoring a damage Deva to "close to new" condition.

Next, use the special string that came with your Deva. This string is a great part of the unique action you have come to expect from such a wonderful product. Swivels, such as used for fishing, actually reduce the amount of spinning as a swivel prevents the Deva from building up tension in the line that would normally cause the Deva to slow down and reverse direction. Plain and simple, when a Deva is hung with our special string, the wind will cause it to spin in one direction until the tension built up equals the pressure applied by the wind. Once this point is reached the Deva will slow and start to spin in the opposite direction, again, only until the momentum is equal to the tension built up int the string and the process is again reveres. With a swivel, the only time a Deva spins is when the wind blows. So it is this simple. With a swivel, it spins when blown by the wind, without a swivel, using the proper line your Deva will continue to spin in opposing directions, most likely, until the wind blows once again.

Using a 'closed eye' hook instead of the more common 'open' hook can prevent your Deva from having to be re-hung everytime Mother Nature gets too carried away.

If your Deva came with two strings of different diameter, use the lighter or thinner one for indoor use and the heavier one for out door use.

Heavier Devas spin faster on lighter line and will also hang lower, but the line will not last quite as long and will need to be replaced just a little more often.

The special line we use for 'getting the most' out of our Devas can be purchased at most hobby, bead or craft stores and is often called Jewelry or Jewelers cord. The amount purchased from an outlet of this sort will probably be enough to keep yours, your neighbors and all your relatives in 'Deva String' for the rest of your life OR you may also be purchased smaller amounts, reasonably priced from our booth. Just go to our Coming Events page to find out when we will be in your neighbor hood next.

Devas may be hung in the more traditional narrow end down position as well as the narrow end up position. Often, the narrow end up method of hanging your deva can have the effect of increasing the spin speed and time. Try it and see for yourself.

Try hanging one or more Devas from each other. In this technique many colors and effects can be had that single Devas simply cannot match.

Another technique, used to prevent devas from swinging is to "tie it down" as well as up. By hanging your Deva in a normal fashion and then running a line from the lower end to an anchor point, such as an eye screw mounted on the floor may reduce the twisting, twirly motion slightly but will definately keep it from swing and swaying in the breexe and possibly banging into something.

Hanging devas from one another or hanging Rain Devas from your Wind Deva will also minimize any swaying to some extent

The longer the line a Deva is hung from the more tension it must create prior to switching directions. This has many effects such as the deva will most likely spin easier with a lighter breeze, spin longer in one direction before tension forces it to reverse directions and spin faster due to the increase in time for momentum to build up.

Places to hang your Wind Deva include, but are definately not limited to: Indoors; the top of stairwells, underneath skylights and light tubes, in front of windows or under hanging plants. Use them to find drafts and places of no air flow or "dead air" space. Fung Shui experts uses them to enhace key characteristics in certain areas. Hang it where the TV used to be or wherever you may easily view it while sitting in your favorite chair, enjoying your favorite beverage or snack. Outdoor; undrneath trees, hanging flower baskets, off eaves, in front of windows, front and back porch, off your clothesline or TV antennae (OK, maybe not the TV antennae). Over hot tubs and hammocks, tables and lawn chairs.

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