So, I recently bought a new, sealed Duncan Freehand One from a friend from Brazil who came on a trip to London and in less than a week it broke in half. I’m really upset because the yo-yo hasn’t suffered any impacts, it’s always stayed in the blister and I’ve only played with it once to try it out. It was when I decided to open it to clean the bearing that this happened, as soon as I took it out of the blister I saw that it was cracked. I continued to open it, cleaned the bearing and when I went to put it back in it split open in my hand. So I came here to ask you guys for help to know if I can get a new yo-yo or if I’ll have to buy it again 
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holy brother. sorry for your loss
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Ah that’s just unfortunate i’m sorry to hear about your split freehand 
I think it depends on where your friend may have gotten lt. I imagine it’s tricky to get a replacement if you buy second hand (even if sealed). I think if it’s relatively new and not an older purchase, you might be able to
I hope you can get a replacement though! I would try contacting your friend to see where they got it and if they may be able to contact support from their end maybe ?
You had to throw this off of a bridge.
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it was in yoyoexpert store
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You might be able to salvage this if you carefully super glue the halves together. That’s a strange way for the yoyo to break.
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i tried and get it worse
your best bet may be to contact YYE support then and explain the situation.
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Bro did u saw that in half? Lol i zoomed in and some of it looks sawed or something idk. Im just messin around btw big dawg! But it really does look like its been sawn in half
No, it split in half on its own, no kidding, I really need your help because I had to sell my favorite yo-yos to be able to buy this yo-yo
Was that a new fresh yoyo or an unopened old stock?
why, it’s a currently available model? it’s not like it’s out of production
this would def be the first time ive ever seen any kind of plastic break literally exactly down the middle and perfectly cleanly in a straight line. i see what you mean too with the plastic burred up on either side of the split like plastic does when it heats up under friction…
but what do i know, im just a humble yoyoer 
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This is my first time seeing this too, I can’t believe that even after 20 years the freehand ones still have this defect of cracking the mold, that’s what I saw people talking about on the yoyo forums and wikipedias
Looking at the good half and the amount of crud in there…. I would say it’s seen a good amount of play. The pad too, is very warn.
Cant speak to that “crack”. Looks awfully uniform.
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nah bro, I’m serious, I didn’t even play with this yoyo twice, that’s the experience I had. One thing I noticed here now is that Steve Brown’s cap was a little bigger than the place where he puts it nah bro, I’m serious, I didn’t even play with this yoyo twice, that’s the experience I had. One thing I noticed here now is that Steve Brown’s cap was a little bigger than where he puts it, forcing the mold a little
Save up and get a beater it’s Steve browns new 5a model by Clyw
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Did you lose the bearing and other spacer?
no, i saved
One of the most Amazing things I have ever seen.
If it was April 1st… that image would be perfect, lol.
No crime committed here, but that being understood, I have a few observations concerning that image.
Outside of Steve Brown… a few of the Original Spin Doctors… a few yo-yo modders(other than me) and the people at the Factory that put these yo-yos together, I doubt you can find people that have handled more Freehands than I have. I can’t count the number of Freehands I have subjected to various procedures, lol.
I still have Brand New Freehands from the distant past. Plastic does get old and more brittle and can and does crack… I fully understand this. I have had freehand halves crack on me when I pressed weight rings in the sides a little too tight… and over time the pressure makes them crack. So, no argument there.
The problem I have with that image, is simple. When plastic cracks, it normally cracks ‘clean’.
The image clearly shows the raised edges along the entire break. This edges could easily be duplicated by cutting the yo-yo in half with a bandsaw. The heat from the cutting friction would raise up the edges and they would look ‘just like that’.
But I will say, the problem with what I think I’m seeing is that if you follow the crack from end to end, if done by a saw, the middle area would not have that crooked deviation in it?
But besides that caveat, it certainly looks like a saw cut, lol.
If a Freehand cracked from the pressure of a very tight side cap fit, it would crack clean. There is no reason it would have a fuzzy raised edge along the break.
I contacted Steve Brown personally to see if he might wanna step in on this and get some thoughts based on his Extensive experience with free hands.
Recognize that I am not suggesting that the OP is deliberately misrepresenting what in actuality happened to that free hand half
What I am saying is what I see, in no way, I would correlate to what plastic actually looks like when it cracks completely through the center of the yo-yo from edge to edge.
I would bet my favorite body parts that no one else could come up with an image of a cracked plastic yo-yo that has a fuzzy edge along the entire break like it was subjected to heat.
So if the OP is not pulling our legs and trying to get us to believe something, that is pretty much unbelievable, then I would say without reservation that’s the weirdest crack I’ve ever seen in a plastic yo-yo.
Think of it this way you have a piece of paper like copy paper. You grab it between both thumbs and index fingers and you tear it in half. Then you get another piece of copy paper and you get a pair of scissors and you cut it in half.
Most plastics, including polycarbonates crack like a scissor cut. They don’t crack like they were torn in half. I know that’s an abstract parallel, but you get the picture.
If a free hand have cracks right down the middle it’s gonna be a nice clean crack whether it’s straighter crooked with no raised edge whatsoever. The raised edge could only be the result of heat.
Maybe the OP will wait for a couple days and say yeah I know I was just kidding you guys ha ha
Or maybe he will be totally puzzled that some of us are buying what he says, based on the image that he showed?
I certainly wouldn’t want to bet a dollar either way.
Personally, I have absolutely no reason to doubt the OP. I can’t see any advantage whatsoever to just make this up.
But there’s no denying it that it sure is funny, and I mean, funny in a fishy kind of way, and I mean fishy in a funny kind of way
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