# My string is knotted to the bearings and my yoyo can’t be taken apart **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [January 9, 2025, 8:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788 "2025-01-09T20:23:41Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:21pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/21 "2025-01-09T21:21:24Z")
Ok thanks ---
**Author:** ![Lido](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/lido/32/173650_2.png) [@Lido](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lido)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/22 "2025-01-09T21:22:10Z")
Ask a parent to help. They might even be able to undo the knot. I sometimes have to ask for help untangling knots and I’m ooooold. ---
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/23 "2025-01-09T21:22:16Z")
Would a steak knife work ---
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/24 "2025-01-09T21:22:52Z")
Ok thanks for the advice ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/25 "2025-01-09T21:23:01Z")
Yeah it should. The tip may also work well for you to pick the knot before you have to cut the string, but you should pick up some extra string to have in hand. OT normal works awesome on Butterflies and is nice and affordabke ---
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/26 "2025-01-09T21:23:26Z")
Ok that’s smart ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/27 "2025-01-09T21:24:11Z")
the new ones have a silver graphic. i wanted one with black cuz it reminded me of a monarch and on Duncan’s site it still looks that way, but it comes printed silver like the other ones ---
**Author:** ![Shwa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/shwa/32/108351_2.png) [@Shwa](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Shwa)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:41pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/28 "2025-01-09T22:41:16Z")
Wait! I’ve got to find an IG post where they got a knot out by using the string…. Put down the knife and maybe we don’t have to take it apart! Edit: here it is…. @chrisnotes86 had just posted it > [@How to Get Axle Knot Out- Thanks Adrian!](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/how-to-get-axle-knot-out-thanks-adrian/416124): > > Easy way to do this thanks to: ---
**Author:** ![ChrisFrancz](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/chrisfrancz/32/48992_2.png) [@ChrisFrancz](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ChrisFrancz)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 10:58pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/29 "2025-01-09T22:58:54Z")
Just don’t scratch the axle up with the knife blade. ---
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/30 "2025-01-09T23:14:14Z")
Ok thanks I have not cut it yet ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2025, 11:50pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/31 "2025-01-09T23:50:02Z")
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**Author:** ![Snoopy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/snoopy/32/669143_2.png) [@Snoopy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Snoopy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 12:04am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/32 "2025-01-10T00:04:39Z")
_**“[How to make a grown-man cry] Chapter One:”**_ ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 12:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/33 "2025-01-10T00:25:40Z")
Yo this is brilliant!! ---
**Author:** ![Lategamer345942](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Lategamer345942](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Lategamer345942)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/34 "2025-01-10T02:20:46Z")
Yoyo string snapped in half when I took off ---
**Author:** ![SlowThrow](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/slowthrow/32/307451_2.png) [@SlowThrow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SlowThrow)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:26am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/35 "2025-01-10T02:26:38Z")
That can happen. Duncan’s stock string… isn’t the greatest. If you have a hobby lobby near you, they sell YoYo factory whips in the hobby section, I recommend one as a great affordable beginner throw you can pick up in person. That said, I have a collection of butterflies, they are awesome and actually build some skills. They can be like yo-yoing on hard mode ---
**Author:** ![Blimpin](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/blimpin/32/80496_2.png) [@Blimpin](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Blimpin)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:34am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/36 "2025-01-10T02:34:11Z")
![1736476381885288364810105169638](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/yoyoexpert1/original/4X/d/1/9/d19dd9f04e98af483b84e4eae16843f03678d1d6.jpeg) What aboot THIS one? ---
**Author:** ![Splizacular](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/splizacular/32/640487_2.png) [@Splizacular](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Splizacular)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:37am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/37 "2025-01-10T02:37:12Z")
yes! i love the way the wings looked on the triangle. i wish they’d bring it back, even with updated tweaks ---
**Author:** ![AtomicChessGuy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/atomicchessguy/32/606394_2.png) [@AtomicChessGuy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AtomicChessGuy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 2:56am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/38 "2025-01-10T02:56:28Z")
This has become a make @Splizacular jealous thread. ---
**Author:** ![Scoogy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/scoogy/32/292166_2.png) [@Scoogy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Scoogy)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:10am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/39 "2025-01-10T03:10:28Z")
This happened to my friends butterfly and when i cut the string with a knife, the center got sharp and started to cut his strings until he got a new one. So just so to very very carefully cut it if you have ti ---
**Author:** ![hooty7734](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/hooty7734/32/348981_2.png) [@hooty7734](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hooty7734)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2025, 3:41am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788/40 "2025-01-10T03:41:06Z")
Excellent tip on the steak knife and using it to pick a string before you cut it! When you’re doing this though flip the knife so the sharp side is up using the backside against the post and trying to get the knife between the string and post. The leverage/tension of string will also help to cut it. [Previous page](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/my-string-is-knotted-to-the-bearings-and-my-yoyo-can-t-be-taken-apart/416788.md?page=1)