# Duncan mods, need help to make yo-yo's unresponsive. **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [May 28, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211 "2013-05-28T05:20:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![SaltySalvador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/saltysalvador/32/1187_2.png) [@SaltySalvador](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SaltySalvador)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/1 "2013-05-28T05:20:34Z")
Ok. So I went to Toys R Us for the first time in years and picked up: A Pro Z Freakhand Metal Drifter Maverick The Maverick was easy, I just replaced the bearing. (Too lazy to clean) The Duncans. To make all of these unresponsive, do I only need to clean the bearings? I think I heard that you need to remove a friction sticker or something. I’m mostly interested in making my Metal Drifter un-responsive. Any other advice? ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/2 "2013-05-28T05:25:41Z")
Clean the bearing, remove one sticker. ---
**Author:** ![SaltySalvador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/saltysalvador/32/1187_2.png) [@SaltySalvador](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SaltySalvador)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:31am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/3 "2013-05-28T05:31:49Z")
> [@jhb8426](#): > > Clean the bearing, remove one sticker. Alright, thanks. Edit: Just to make sure, the sticker removal is necessary right? ---
**Author:** ![jhb8426](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhb8426/32/631_2.png) [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/4 "2013-05-28T06:04:49Z")
It’s always worked ok for me. Save it for when the other one wears out. ---
**Author:** ![Kelvartis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ecc23a/32.png) [@Kelvartis](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Kelvartis)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 6:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/5 "2013-05-28T06:16:33Z")
I’m using some Kitty string super thin as well on mine. handles fair enough for the cost. ---
**Author:** ![Squaktopus13](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/squaktopus13/32/1325_2.png) [@Squaktopus13](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Squaktopus13)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 2:02pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/6 "2013-05-28T14:02:14Z")
I didn’t remove any stickers I just cleaned the bearing and wore the stickers down ---
**Author:** ![Bcmaddog](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/bcmaddog/32/1170_2.png) [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 5:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/7 "2013-05-28T17:57:41Z")
Some times a sticker needs to be removed sometimes not. Just clean the bearing. With the Duncan Freakhand and Metal Drifter you can silicone them, if you use Flowable and a fairly small amount. ---
**Author:** ![SaltySalvador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/saltysalvador/32/1187_2.png) [@SaltySalvador](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SaltySalvador)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:11pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/8 "2013-05-28T19:11:44Z")
Thanks ---
**Author:** ![Jdrabik](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jdrabik/32/1110_2.png) [@Jdrabik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Jdrabik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 7:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/9 "2013-05-28T19:57:44Z")
For the Pro Z and Freakhand, you might need to remove a sticker and clean the bearing, as they come with Friction Stickers, which are pretty aggressive. For the Metal Drifter, you should only need to clean the bearing. ---
**Author:** ![MYNAMEISZen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@MYNAMEISZen](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MYNAMEISZen)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/10 "2013-05-28T21:22:55Z")
> [@Bcmaddog](#): > > With the Duncan Freakhand and Metal Drifter you can silicone them, if you use Flowable and a fairly small amount. you can’t silicone a Metal drifter the recess I very shallow. ---
**Author:** ![anonyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 9:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/11 "2013-05-28T21:30:39Z")
> [@SaltySalvador](#): > > Ok. So I went to Toys R Us for the first time in years and picked up: > > A Pro Z > > Freakhand > > Metal Drifter > > Maverick > > The Maverick was easy, I just replaced the bearing. (Too lazy to clean) > > The Duncans. To make all of these unresponsive, do I only need to clean the bearings? I think I heard that you need to remove a friction sticker or something. I’m mostly interested in making my Metal Drifter un-responsive. Any other advice? For me, the Freakhand and Metal Drifter went unresponsive with a bearing cleaning, no other mods. My Metal Drifter uses spacers, my son’s is newer and does not use spacers. The results are the same. I’m not removing any silicone stickers. I don’t have a Maverick, so no comment. With the ProZ, you might want different spacers and an A-sized CenterTrac or KK in there. ---
**Author:** ![Zigtronik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Zigtronik](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zigtronik)\ **Post date:** [May 28, 2013, 11:35pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/12 "2013-05-28T23:35:59Z")
With the maverick it goes unresponsive after cleaning the bearing and wearing the pads down.i haven’t tried removing one pad though so that might give the same results ---
**Author:** ![Tuxedodave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Tuxedodave](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Tuxedodave)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/13 "2013-05-29T22:10:47Z")
I don’t think you can silicone a metal drifter. Also you cannot silicon the freakhand with modding. ---
**Author:** ![SaltySalvador](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/saltysalvador/32/1187_2.png) [@SaltySalvador](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SaltySalvador)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2013, 10:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/duncan-mods-need-help-to-make-yo-yos-unresponsive/54211/14 "2013-05-29T22:19:20Z")
The Metal Drifter was the most responsive. I cleaned all the bearings. All of them are nice and unresponsive thanks to you guys. But I have a little problem with the Maverick. The response is very very slippy and a lot of my binds will slip. It has very skinny pads. Will it accept silicone and will that help make the binds nice and snappy?