When lubing up the bearing to my Valkyrie C bearing last week I really overdid it. I know that lube oftentimes temporarily makes an otherwise unresponsive bearing responsive but I reallllly overlubed. While it is nice having my bearing be dead silent I am asking if there is a way to return the bearing to normal faster than just throwing? Any advice would be appreciated. Thank you!
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Canned air works well
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clean the bearing again, if thats not an option compressed air like @JDyo recommended is a good solution
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Agreed with the above. If you dust a lot of stuff and use a lot of canned air like I do, for whatever reason, a used Datavac is an awesome pickup. You can run a datavac for a lot longer than a canned air so even when I REALLY over do the lube I can usually just aggressively spin it out on a pencil. Then I can dust my keyboard and my tower fan right after. But not my ceiling fan, not againā¦
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Lots of repetitive Gyro Flops.
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The Datavac has an attachment that fits into the C bearing?
I was considering getting one since canned air is so expensive and the Datavac would pay for itself in no time, but I didnāt see any attachment on it that looks like it could attach to a ball pump adapter so I didnāt get one. If it really does have one Iām getting one immediately.
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I just hold the bearing on a bearing removal tool and blast it with the Datavac on both sides. Works great for cleaning.
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Yes, but does the Datavac have a ball pump attachment?
Because I donāt see it being effective if it doesnāt have an attachment that small. I would much rather get an air compressor instead.
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Donāt waste your time trying to wear it down. Just get some alcohol and put it in a little bottle or empty prescription bottle. Try to get 91 percent alcohol or better. Donāt worry about anybody that says they donāt use alcohol because it has a little water in it and water will rust the bearing. That is simply False information that some people have convinced themselves is useful information extracted directly from the Bible.
You are not leaving the bearing in the alcohol to soak. You are putting the bearing in the little bottle to immediately shake it around and then take it out. Put the bearing on a pencil and spin it with your thumb 4 or five times. Leave it on the pencil and dry it with a hair dryer for about 20 seconds.Let it cool for a few minutes and then while still on the pencil, put one drop or less of āthinā lube on the bearing. Unless you are playing responsive, you donāt need thick lube. You are mainly lubing a bearing to keep the bearing from eating itself alive by changing the friction coefficient.
ā¦. I remember many years ago, a guy told me,ā I over lubed my bearing. It took about 20 minutes of doing around the worlds to break the lube down someā.
Unless you just like wasting time because you have the time to wasteā¦ā¦ donāt.
The time you use wearing lube down could have been spend learning a trick.
Or eating a Pizza.
Or bothš¤
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Ooooh man, the idea of someone doing āaround the worldā for 20 minutes is killing me 
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Ah. No ball attachment, sadly. You can get some pretty small attachments, but mostly for air mattresses or maddening amounts of balloons.
Compressor sounds like an awesome investment if you want to swing that way. Bearings, computers, various sports balls, tires, the works. Also the alcohol thing should work perfectly fine as well. In fact I feel like trying it today on a rather noisy center track.
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Darn it. Did you have to call attention to the āaround the worldā part? Now I have Daft Punk stuck in my head and itās not going anywhere soon.
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Fun fact either that track or āE-proā by Beck is going to be the song I use for my go at the PNWR.
Unsurprisingly, even though I donāt think it counts for any points in 1A play I feel that one would be obligated to around the world a couple of times
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I did this in tandem with blowing air both before and after and I feel that I have unlocked the secrets of yoyo maintenance
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Thanks for the info! Looks like I should be going with an air compressor instead, I can use it to pump up my bike as well so thatās great!
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I did that a week ago man, the best shot is to clean the bearing with water and soap and brush the hell out of it, then leave it to dry for 4-5 hours. Then you can lube it again.
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