# Help! Trouble with my Whip

**URL:** <https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733>\
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\
**Created:** [August 19, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733 "2014-08-19T00:22:47Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Boosh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/boosh/32/1566_2.png) [@Boosh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Boosh)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 12:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733/1 "2014-08-19T00:22:47Z")

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After about a week of usage, my yyf whip has become responsive and sleeps for barely any time, I can’t even finish cold fusion. I tried brain lube cause thats all I have but it just made it worse. Do I have to buy thin lube and is there anything I can do to it while I wait? Any other appliances I could find around the house as thin lube?help!!!

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**Author:** ![Yoyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733/2 "2014-08-19T00:27:26Z")

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Clean it out with dish soap, spin it around, then rinse while spinning it until all suds are gone, then dry it out with computer duster or a hair dryer.

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**Author:** ![yuki\_onitsura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yuki_onitsura/32/1162_2.png) [@yuki\_onitsura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yuki_onitsura)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 12:52am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733/3 "2014-08-19T00:52:48Z")

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It sounds counterintuitive, but adding any sort of lube (thin or thick) will actually make a bearing spin slower. Your best bet would be to deshield and clean the bearing (instructions here: [How to Clean Your YoYo Bearing - Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance - YoYoExpert](http://yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,871.0.html))

Yuki

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**Author:** ![Boosh](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/boosh/32/1566_2.png) [@Boosh](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Boosh)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 1:11am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733/4 "2014-08-19T01:11:15Z")

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How do you deshield

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**Author:** ![Yoyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/y/41988e/32.png) [@Yoyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yoyo)\
**Post date:** [August 19, 2014, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/help-trouble-with-my-whip/68733/5 "2014-08-19T01:13:50Z")

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> [@Boosh](#):
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> How do you deshield

It should be in the guide, I’m bad at explaining so I won’t bother, but if not some skateboard bearing use the same system so their should be a number of videos online.