Bearing suddenly gets extremely loud on a random throw, despite having cleaned it

General Yo-Yo
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Hello,

I’ve recently gotten a One Drop Panorama.

I’ve cleaned it literally as of this morning and lubed it, but on a random hard throw, it is suddenly very loud. This happened around 2-3 days ago, which was a day after I got the Panorama at all.

Otherwise, it spins fine on a chopstick for around 10-ish seconds.

Is there something wrong with the bearing? Should I clean it again?

Cheers.

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I’m having this problem as well. I just got my sprout and the bearing already came bad so I replaced it with a brand new VIP bearing and it was playing fine for a little while. But after a day this VIP bearing is just loud. It is just super noisy. Every other bearing I have that’s in all my other yoyos are quiet ish compared to this new VIP bearing I just got. It’s actually annoying

I cleaned my VIP bearing even though it was brand new and it was quiet for maybe a day and now it’s like super loud. I’m almost wondering if I need like half a drop of oil to keep it quiet

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nope!

nope! just play through it. especially if it’s a od flat, they’re very loud sometimes but if you just keep playing they generally dislodge the piece of whatever is causing it and it quiets down again. loud but not responsive=keep playing, loud + responsive=clean it. this goes for non od bearings too. lube goes a long way to keeping them quiet

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Thanks Tom. Appreciate your wisdom. I’ll keep playing. It’s not responsive or playing materially different, so I’ll take your advice and just keep throwing!

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Sometimes I get that after a particularly bad floor hit. The next couple throws will be really loud, then it gets quiet again. No idea why it happens: alignment issue? small metal shavings?

But the bearing keeps spinning, so I keep throwing