Hi all, new to the forum (and mostly to yo-yos in the modern world).
I received my new One Drop Format C: yesterday and noticed the following:
Out of the box, the yoyo was almost silent, after a few minutes of play, it became audible, I added a single drop of V4M lube and the sound went away. One day later and it’s back. The yoyo also seems to be slightly more responsive than before, a hard tug can get it to return every 2 or 3 times where before this didn’t happen. Plastiwhips result in binding as well.
As this is my first experience with a higher end yoyo and One Drop in particular, does this sound normal?
A very, VERY common experience with OD 10-ball bearings.
Although some people say they just work through that grinding screeching phase, I supplement that “breaking in” with cleaning the bearing. If you don’t know how to clean a bearing yet, no time like the present!
I sometimes have to “break in” and clean an OD 10-ball two or three times before it finally stops being a pest. But sometimes once is enough. I’ve never owned one that required zero break-in time.
Yeah just got mine in as well and was working with it when all of a sudden it got real noisy. Scared the bejeebers out of me thinking I broke it somehow.
Raises hand but sadly I’ve tried them all and I’ve found I like the general-yo AIGR and the OD 10 Ball the best. I may have gotten a bad one from you fj (seems like I wasn’t the only one) but it definitely wasn’t a really good experience, I do love the graphite dry lube that terrapin offers though!
Yes perhaps you got a messed up ceramic, I never got it back to check it though.
I could send you a steel 10 ball Flat to try out if you like, free, as I only sell them for 6.50.
Let me know…
