These instructions discuss how to maintain your fire poi.

When not in use, it is important to keep your fire poi away in a dry location. Water, especially salty water, may corrode some components over time, and degrade the quality of leather handles. Keep fire poi or fire poi heads in a container that will keep oil and soot from leaving the container. Paint cans, ammo cans, and similar containers are common ways of keeping poi protected from water, and from oil and soot from getting other things dirty.

• Handles
• Keep leather handles away from water. Regular use is enough to keep the leather supple. Replace if dry, cracked, or split.
• Quicklinks
• Quicklinks should be tightened by hand before (and in between) any use with fire. Do not tighten with hand tools. Replace if rusted, if threads are damaged, or if nut is too loose.
• Chain
• All Flamma Aeterna chains have a steel or stainless steel base. Inspect ball chain for rust or widening balls. Inspect link chain for breaks in welds. Replace in case of rust or broken welds.
• Wicks
• Wicks will degrade over time due to burning, and to some degree from simple physical abuse frequently associated with using fire poi as practice poi. Inspect the wicks for frays, and trim them. Apply white glue to stiffen areas affect by fraying and to reduce the susceptibility to fraying. Trim any wick sections that are "hanging by a thread" to reduce the chance of debris flying from your fire poi while spinning. Replace if wick is no longer secure.