# How often do you lube your bearing and change your pads? **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [May 5, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450 "2015-05-05T23:23:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![THEY0Y0MAN](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d6d6ee/32.png) [@THEY0Y0MAN](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/THEY0Y0MAN)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/1 "2015-05-05T23:23:28Z")
How often do you lube your bearing and change your pads? ---
**Author:** ![Zorro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zorro/32/206266_2.png) [@Zorro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zorro)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2015, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/2 "2015-05-05T23:32:14Z")
I lube my bearings whenever they get really loud, so about once every two months or so. As for pads, I wait until my are near “un-usable” before changing them. I try to make them last as long as possible. ---
**Author:** ![Morgoroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/morgoroth/32/795_2.png) [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/3 "2015-05-06T12:15:34Z")
It’s a silly question, but what does “unusable” mean? Will it not bind at that point? I have o-rings right now so I don’t have any experience with pads. ---
**Author:** ![\_RTD\_alecto](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/_rtd_alecto/32/1336_2.png) [@\_RTD\_alecto](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/_RTD_alecto)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 12:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/4 "2015-05-06T12:24:01Z")
i havent lubed a bearing in two years… so you dont have to lube them often. as for pads i play with them till they fall off… ive only replaced three yoyos pads since i started six years ago. its all in the players preference. ---
**Author:** ![GregP](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/gregp/32/1192_2.png) [@GregP](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/GregP)\ **Post date:** [May 6, 2015, 1:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/5 "2015-05-06T13:21:01Z")
I hardly ever replace pads. I’m just as likely to replace a brand-new pad, though, for the same reason I would replace an old one: bind is too slippy. If I have a “standard-ish” string in the yoyo (sOMEThING type-2 for example) and a Guy Wright bind isn’t easy and natural (ie. it keeps slipping), then it’s too slippy for me. You can almost always still bind those yoyos in other ways (bare minimum, a standard bind almost always works) but it’s not playing the way I want to if I can’t Guy Wright bind it. :wink: ---
**Author:** ![Zorro](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/zorro/32/206266_2.png) [@Zorro](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Zorro)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 5:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/6 "2015-05-07T17:58:19Z")
> [@Morgoroth](#): > > It’s a silly question, but what does “unusable” mean? > Will it not bind at that point? By “un-usable” I mean that the yoyo barely binds and there is next to nothing left of the current pads. ---
**Author:** ![Schnayke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Schnayke](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Schnayke)\ **Post date:** [May 7, 2015, 6:36pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/7 "2015-05-07T18:36:31Z")
Every time they need it. Bearing acts up lube it, binds slip, or low rpms off your throw change the pads. ---
**Author:** ![oops](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/oops/32/683976_2.png) [@oops](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/oops)\ **Post date:** [May 9, 2015, 9:58am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/8 "2015-05-09T09:58:26Z")
lube - never pads - when binds are very slippy or old response rips out ---
**Author:** ![Morgoroth](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/morgoroth/32/795_2.png) [@Morgoroth](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Morgoroth)\ **Post date:** [May 15, 2015, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-often-do-you-lube-your-bearing-and-change-your-pads/74450/9 "2015-05-15T16:46:02Z")
I think I’m jinxed or something. I just got a Too HOT and it’s a great throw, but I had to clean and lube the bearing after just three days because it became responsive. Maybe it will last longer this time, I hope.