Aight. So the chickey/saaps we are borrowing from another group are in various conditions. Some have been smoothed/sanded down and others are a bit blistery on the hands. A few of them come together smoothly, but the one's I'm most concerned about are the one's that don't. It takes a great deal of energy to push the two ends together, and when your going fast, it's hard to make it  a clean movement.


What can I do to fix these saaps/chikey, to make them more smooth and less choppy?

Hardeep is the expert here, but I'll add that last year my team had a similar situation.  We put WD-40 on the wood which seemed to reduce the friction and make it so that the saaps wouldn't be so choppy.  The saaps ended up having a pretty smooth movement and lasted throughout the season. 
 
Not sure if that was the right thing to do in terms of longevity of the wood, but it seemed to work for the time.

Hardeep is the expert here, but I'll add that last year my team had a similar situation.  We put WD-40 on the wood which seemed to reduce the friction and make it so that the saaps wouldn't be so choppy.  The saaps ended up having a pretty smooth movement and lasted throughout the season. 
 
Not sure if that was the right thing to do in terms of longevity of the wood, but it seemed to work for the time.

We are borrowing these from someone else. The wood/finish on these saaps/chikey are not well done. It's basically just bare-bones wood with a few nuts and washers here and there. I'm up for the idea since it's less time consuming, but I don't want it to make a visible stain on the saaps/chikey.

well at this point no advice one can give you advice cause you keep saying you don't want to mess with the saaps?

Well I do want to do something to fix them... but something that has more pro's than cons. I guess if I can't do anything else to them, I could do want they told me I could.