# How to easily lube your bearing after washing it. **URL:** \ **Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance\ **Created:** [August 22, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241 "2010-08-22T21:14:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![yoyoz1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoz1/32/388_2.png) [@yoyoz1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoz1)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 9:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/1 "2010-08-22T21:14:09Z")
Some people after wahsing their use the method of lubing with a needle, but here is and easier way: You take the washed and deshielded bearing, then simply put a couple of drops of thin lube or your lube of preference and spin it till the whole bearing is lubed. Now take your bearing and drop it from 1 or 1.5 feet untill no more lube splashes out of the bearing, this with get the excess lube out. This method leaves your bearing lubed and no or almost no breaking in time. ---
**Author:** ![arem250](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/arem250/32/7922_2.png) [@arem250](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/arem250)\ **Post date:** [August 22, 2010, 11:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/2 "2010-08-22T23:32:27Z")
You can also substitute the dropping part for taking a can of compressed air and lightly blowing out the extra lube. ---
**Author:** ![Domin123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Domin123](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Domin123)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 2:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/3 "2010-08-24T14:44:45Z")
> [@arem250](#): > > You can also substitute the dropping part for taking a can of compressed air and lightly blowing out the extra lube. Yeah, you should not drop it like that. It is rather risky as the bearing cage might bend, causing the bearing to be permanently damaged and you would have to get a new bearing… ---
**Author:** ![yoyoz1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoz1/32/388_2.png) [@yoyoz1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoz1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 3:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/4 "2010-08-24T15:26:34Z")
Bearing are very solid and robust, so its very hard to break them. Show me a picture of a ruined bearing that was ruined by dropping it and I´ll beleive you. Maybe someone can test the strenght of some beairngs mithbuster style, they buy an assortment of bearings, put some weight on them till they collapse, check the terminal velocity of bearings to see what happens if you drop a bearing at the highest point were it will get ruined. If the bearings are strong enough to stand all that abuse they take out all the bearings and smash the till they are just crushed metal. In the end they show what takes to break/ruin a bearing. ---
**Author:** ![Domin123](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/57b2e6/32.png) [@Domin123](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Domin123)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:25pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/5 "2010-08-24T16:25:51Z")
> [@YYF Die Nasty Help](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yyf-die-nasty-help/18228/1): > > So, I accidently dropped my Die-Nasty on a hard chair few minutes ago… Picked it up, started to play with it, Responsive & the sound is different. When i spin the bearing with my finger it sounds funny. What happened and how to fix ? Suprisingly there are no dents or marks. > [@YYF Die Nasty Help](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yyf-die-nasty-help/18228/6): > > What happened is it probably bent the cage that holds the balls in the bearing. It is allowing the balls to be where they should be sometimes and then one will move and cause it to not spin well. You may need a new bearing. From here, it seems like bearings are rather brittle… ---
**Author:** ![x52](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/3bc359/32.png) [@x52](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/x52)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 4:46pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/6 "2010-08-24T16:46:52Z")
Why would you want to wash a bearing? It could rust it. I think you mean cleaning. ---
**Author:** ![yoyoz1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yoyoz1/32/388_2.png) [@yoyoz1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoz1)\ **Post date:** [August 24, 2010, 11:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-easily-lube-your-bearing-after-washing-it/18241/7 "2010-08-24T23:23:14Z")
> [@YYF Die Nasty Help](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yyf-die-nasty-help/18228/1): > > > [@YYF Die Nasty Help](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yyf-die-nasty-help/18228/1): > > > > So, I accidently dropped my Die-Nasty on a hard chair few minutes ago… Picked it up, started to play with it, Responsive & the sound is different. When i spin the bearing with my finger it sounds funny. What happened and how to fix ? Suprisingly there are no dents or marks. > > > [@YYF Die Nasty Help](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/yyf-die-nasty-help/18228/6): > > > > What happened is it probably bent the cage that holds the balls in the bearing. It is allowing the balls to be where they should be sometimes and then one will move and cause it to not spin well. You may need a new bearing. > > From here, it seems like bearings are rather brittle… Show me that dropping the bearing itself from one foot on a table will ruin it, even if the bearing on that dienasty got responsive becuase of the yoyo hitting that chair. The impact of the yoyo hitting something is much more than droping a bearing at a one foot distance.