So no. Thanks for the heads up! Glad I asked before doing something dumb
I’ve picked at my bearing shields quite hard for like 20 minutes before finally getting them off with a sewing pin and noticed no noticeable damage or performance change even after re-shielding them.
May I ask what happened to make you think you ‘ruined’ them?
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Might still be useful if debris has carved chunks out from the inner channels.
Coat the interior, let it harden. Then run it until the ball bearings grind down the excess into a new channel and clean with alcohol, which should have no effect on hardened linseed.
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oh my, do you hate yourself??
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I only do this to my best bearings. Most of the time, I don’t.
So, it was just a matter of getting frustrated and pulling out the shields by denting them with a wall nail so I could get more room to pop them out. The first time I did this I had no issues but you can damaging the bearings, which has happened to me, I’ve since stopped trying getting those things off.
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I can sense the blood loss from this post already
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FYI, I had really good luck with the Mineral Spirits and 3-In-One oil. I put a lot less of the oil than Dylan K does in the video. I’m now storing a bunch of my bearings in that solution. The bearing I could only spin for 3 seconds now easily gets 30 seconds with the finger flick.
Honestly, I just used a couple drops of the 3-In-One oil in the Mineral Spirits.
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I must know the details of your new procedure! Pleeease!
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I first tried the ratio of what Dylan outlines in the video I posted above, but I found that was way too much oil for my personal preference. I made a second batch with a few drops of 3-In-One oil and filled the rest of the medicine bottle with Mineral Spirits, I left plenty of room to throw in several bearings. I would suggest playing around with the ratio, both ingredients are inexpensive. This is by far the best results I’ve had.
When you are ready for a bearing, just pull out with something that won’t pollute the solution, I use these long surgical tweezers (not sure what their official name is). I let the bearing out to dry for a good hour and then I forced dried it with this ecteronic compressed air duster I bought from Amazon (link below). The long neck piece fits perfectly over a bearing and get’s them nice and dry really quick. It’s also good for cleaning your keyboard and all that jazz.
Anyway, I was trying to fix this bearing for a couple of days at this point, so I was really surprised to see how well this worked out. It’s only anecdotal but it was enough for me to give it a try on several “problem bearings” that I’ve been holding on to. I’ll test another one tonight to see if it helped get them working properly or if I just got lucky with a one off. I brought the yoyo out today to test again and it’s still totally unresponsive so it had nothing to do with the yoyo itself.
No downside to trying it out that I can think of.
I would love to hear how it works out for others, if you try it please post your results.
Compressed air duster that I used:
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