Translation:
Just buy a WHIP and end your suffering!
I’m cleaning the bearings in the pair I purchased. If I feed adventurous, I’ll try packing modeling clay and baking that into the rolled rims for more weight. However, that seems like too much effort. I’m gonna stop at bearing cleaning. I might see about getting a wider bearing with the same specs, but that also feels like too much effort.
Get yourself to the nearest Dollar Tree. I was surprised the one nearest to me had them in stock. I might pick up a bunch more, clean out the bearings, put a 100% poly string on them and then give them to those little brats who keep saying “Give me a yoyo”.
At the same time, after I clean the bearings in the test pair I have, I’ll know more. Even at a dollar, you don’t want to hand out yoyos that simply can’t perform at all. If they can get started with them, then OK, that’s great.
I think most modders know some basics of business.
Time = Money.
For a dollar, to probably transform these stamped tin yoyos into something that sucks less, well, it just seems to be a heck of lot less frustrating and more time efficient to just get a Duncan Butterfly XT or a Classic or a Whip.
Then again, what do I know? I am NOT a modder, nor will I ever be. I mean, unless you consider swapping bearings, cleaning and treating bearings and using flowable silicone to be modding, I am otherwise just a guy doing maintenance and upkeep on my yoyos.
I guess for someone starting in modding and wants to have some practice stock on the cheap, these $1 throws would suffice for some applications, but not a whole lot.
Please don’t inject negativity into what you implied was negativity.
Anyhow, I got bearings soaking in acetone. I should take them out before the plastic cage melts…
