# Bearing Help!
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [September 7, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793 "2016-09-07T21:18:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@Siruta](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Siruta)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 9:18pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/1 "2016-09-07T21:18:29Z")
So I have just gotten a new Pixel bearing last Friday and it was wonderful. I didn’t like that it didn’t have shields but I guessed that I could get over it. (I couldn’t.) But, for some reason, a couple of hours later, it stopped working as well and it sounds like it has a lot of stuff in it or something. I’ve cleaned it twice but it still doesn’t work properly. It spins for about 5 secs on a flick spin and it makes weird noises even on slow spins. Anything I did wrong? Did I knock the race out of place or something? Anyway I can fix it?
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### Author:  [@saintrobyn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/saintrobyn)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/2 "2016-09-07T22:41:08Z")
Contact Chris or Steve CLYW. They can probably help you out.
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### Author:  [@Dust](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Dust)
#### Post date: [September 7, 2016, 11:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/3 "2016-09-07T23:15:18Z")
how are you cleaning it? what are you using to clean it with? Have you tried re-lubing after cleaning? if so what did did you use and how much?
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### Author:  [@Siruta](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Siruta)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2016, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/4 "2016-09-08T00:22:42Z")
> [@InvaderDust](#):
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> how are you cleaning it? what are you using to clean it with? Have you tried re-lubing after cleaning? if so what did did you use and how much?
I’m putting the bearing in a glass container or pure acetone and shaking it around for about a minute to get the particulates out. I have re-lubed to see if it will thin what I thought was in there but it didn’t and I put less than a drop of thin lube on a needle and put it in the bearing. The smallest amount of lube that I see. I do the same with my OD 10 ball and that’s okay.
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### Author:  [@Dust](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Dust)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2016, 12:54am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/5 "2016-09-08T00:54:02Z")
everything sounds pretty good to me, and i agree, it does seem like something you should reach out to CLYW’s customer service email. Its possible you got a bad one, in which case they got your back.
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### Author:  [@YoYoExpertGarrett](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/YoYoExpertGarrett)
#### Post date: [September 8, 2016, 2:01pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/6 "2016-09-08T14:01:18Z")
It’s usually better to contact the retailer you purchased the bearing/yo-yo from instead of the manufacturer. If you got it from us, send us an email or give us a call and we can help you out.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_B](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mark_B)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2016, 3:09am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/7 "2016-09-11T03:09:05Z")
It usually lasts a few throws for me but I think it got worse after trying to clean it with paper. Maybe it could be extra dry after cleaning.
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### Author:  [@Mark\_B](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mark_B)
#### Post date: [September 11, 2016, 3:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/bearing-help/81793/8 "2016-09-11T03:11:31Z")
Nevermind… I didn’t read all the comments. It’s probably just a small defect. They machine so many so precisely that there’s a high chance of one of them being screwed up.