Glad it worked out for you! Just so ya know, you can use soap and water in place of lighter fluid, just be sure to immediately dry out the bearing.
Thanks!
Yes, based on those two pictures, the ratio of the outer diameter to inner diameter of the 10-ball is larger than that of the other bearing. However, the question is whether that serves any useful purpose or if it is simply One Drop’s marketing department trying to sell an arbitrary detail of the bearings they buy as a feature. I am definitely leaning toward the latter.
When has this ever been an issue? Even on yo-yos with plastic bearings seats like YoYoJams, you will strip the yo-yo long before crush the bearing seat.
All yo-yos get screwed together tightly. I have never found a need to crank a side effect yo-yo together any tighter than any other yo-yo.
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I’ve always had the issue of a bearing damaging the shim on the bearing seat, so it comes from personal experience, although I am probably tightening the yoyos too much lol
The “bearing” loonacy continues.
Wait, what?!? We have a marketing department? And they tried to sell you on a larger outside diameter on the inner bearing race?!?
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To start this again, just dropped a 10 ball in my rally (bought BST) and the previous owner of course didn’t send the original. With a buddha wipple the throw was LOUD, rattly… 10 ball, pretty quiet throw now.
Cleaned both bearings, the 10 ball just sits better therefore spins better.
Funny, I had the same thing! Rally from BST didn’t come with original bearing (some kind of grooved concave instead) so I bought a couple of 10-balls at MA States and man they make the Rally smooth and silent even fresh out of the bag. I’m sure it’ll need cleaning at some point if the posts here are anything to go by, but right now it feels perfect in this yo-yo.
Rofl, I know.
You guys should hit it with a blow torch next after the acetone. Make sure you burn all that residue out because you never can know for sure otherwise.
There have in fact been periods of time in which people have lit their bearings on fire. 
I do not recommend this… just saying that people have done crazier things than clean their bearings with a variety of solvents!
Yep, don’t burn the solvent off the bearings. It ruins them. I got a yoyo in trade once that the guy did that to. Had to replace the bearing.
That didn’t last long, got noisy out of nowhere and now I have to clean it… Smh… Never had to clean any other bearing. Weird! Why are these in such need of cleaning?
Ten balls are infamous for their break in period, if its dirt in the bearing its no the bearings fault.
I just wish I knew what exactly causes it!