How do you prefer to play your bearings?

General Yo-Yo
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I was just wondering if you guys/gals prefer to play you bearings dry or do you regularly lube them?

I personally prefer to play mine dry, I like the longer spin times and they just seem to play a bit smoother to me (That may just be a mental thing though) And not to mention I know where to buy any size bearings 10 for 20 bucks (And so does anyone ells that has done a google search for them) so It’s no big deal when I need to replace one (Which has yet to happen)

so what about you guys?

-Brett

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I won’t play them dry. Metal on metal with no lubrication is damage waiting to happen. Bearings locking up for no reason other than being dry is just silly to me.

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By “Damage waiting to happen” do you mean to just the bearing, or to the yoyo itself?

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almost dry I put the smallest amount of lube in the bearing race

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i just use a little thin lube to keep it quiet. however that didn’t work on the center track bearing. it still made my Dv888 sound like a boat motor.

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i normally just run em dry. seems to work for me. i have no problem buying bearings in bulk for cheap. ;D

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semi-dry…tiny drop of thin lube ~

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thin bearings (which i throw 80% of the time) - caked on thick lube.
thick bearings - however they happen to be. i really don’t fuss about them. whatever comes in my spyy’s seems to be consistently solid.

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do u have to lube aigr bearings because i have 1 and im not using it because i dont got thin lube i was wondering if it would hurt it to run it drie

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I run mine dry with the littlest amout of lube. ussally I drip a tooth pick in the oil and just touch a few balls and thats it. Oh i also like to run them without shields.

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I lightly lube the bearings.

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dry cause all i got is thick lube

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You should consider getting some Thin Lube then (or find an alternative) cause playing dry immensely shortens bearing life.

Back to the Topic, I play mine lightly lubed.

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I lube them whenever they get loud. I don’t clean bearings anymore.

I usually use YoYoJam Thin lube or unicorn blood to lubricate my bearings.

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… Please tell my this is a real band of lube. And if so where can I get some?

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I believe drinking Unicorn blood will make you immortal

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New favorite person on the board :wink:

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Me? or Samad?

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You,… And Samad… Anyone that makes a HP reference pretty much :wink: