# Echo tips over after new bearing
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [December 20, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826 "2011-12-20T00:26:50Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@TheRyanFace](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheRyanFace)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 12:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826/1 "2011-12-20T00:26:50Z")
Hey, fellas. I’d really appreciate any insight or advice you could give me on this particular problem. I have a Duncan Echo that I was really happy with the first month I had it. One day, it was responsive, and I found out that there was a hair in the bearing. I removed the hair and cleaned the bearing for good measure. It’s responsive. Now, I figure the hair kinda messed things up inside the bearing, so I toss it and put in a new one.
Now, it’s back to playing unresponsive. When I open it up, the bearing spins fine with a flick. However, it tips over fairly quickly. It’s not the same old Echo that I knew a few months back. Any ideas as to why this thing is tipping over so quickly?
I wanted to use this for 5A, but not like this… ☹
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### Author:  [@skitrz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/skitrz)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826/2 "2011-12-20T00:29:34Z")
A new bearing will require a break in period. You can just play it and it should become unresponsive as the oil breaks down. A hair shouldn’t have damaged your old bearing. Try cleaning it again.
(nice rabbit avatar)
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### Author:  [@TheRyanFace](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/TheRyanFace)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 12:57am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826/3 "2011-12-20T00:57:11Z")
Oh, sorry guys. I put in a Koncave bearing that I had laying around and it was fine. It’s clearly just the bearing being finnicky. I’m gonna clean it once more before I toss it out. Thanks!
Edit: Yep. It’s just the bearing. I cleaned it again, and it didn’t fix the problem so I tossed it. Popped one of my stock CLYW bearings in there, and it works fine again. Thanks, buddies 😃
Closed 🙂
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 2:20pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826/4 "2011-12-20T14:20:54Z")
Thanks. I really appreciate when people state the solution to the problem rather than just saying “It’s fixed.”
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### Author:  [@PlasticWhip](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/PlasticWhip)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2011, 8:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/echo-tips-over-after-new-bearing/32826/5 "2011-12-20T20:42:12Z")
> [@jhb8426](#):
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> Thanks. I really appreciate when people state the solution to the problem rather than just saying “It’s fixed.”
Yeah, cause then it helps all the people who use google…