I think I shipped an order of a bearing blanks to you, you’ll have to try one out when they arrive! Post office appears to be taking their sweet time with everything I shipped out.
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Thanks! I’ll let you know how they go.
Also it seems like the post office is taking their sweet time with everything these days.
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That was a replay to Brandon 
but I did just get an order from you lol! Thanks, I’ll ship them tomorrow.
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Oop. I’m blind. Was planning to buy them one way or another, so I put in my order 
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So I slapped a zgrt D bearing blank in like @Captrogers did and I love how it plays!
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I’m bringing mine to Indy states so we will see what others think too
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Feels good to have other people’s protos on my bench again
Currently rushing to try and get a couple orders in before the baby gets here. Figure the extra cash will come in handy when both of us are out of work for a bit.
We are officially at T-minus 5 days. Thursday here we come 
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Babies are almost never on time unless scheduled for cesarean or induction, so you might have a little extra time too haha. My kids were both 2+ weeks late.
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One of mine was 3 weeks early. The other we had to go in and pull her out.
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lol yep early or late, never on day of haha.
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Bingo. Official due date is the 13th, but my wife has a pin in her hip from when she was a kid. Causes a couple issues she’s worried might get chronically worse or interfere with labor, so she scheduled a C-section.
Sounds like my younger sister, but then she was the second twin
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At least you know in theory exactly when it’ll happen then. Less middle of the night panic.
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I was a full month early. Still barely passed the car seat test tho, lol
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Due to complications each of our kids was high risk and a planned induction. Thank god cause my wife had our kids so easily she would have absolutely had our kids at our house if given the option to decide when to go to the hospital
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#6 Queen Bee showed up last week and I’ve got a bit of time on the string. I wanted to post earlier but life got busy. I’m really enjoying it so far and want to put it this category of throws.
I will say that the bearing noise is loud as previously mentioned. I wasn’t minding it too much then the wife chimed in and said “what is going on down there” 
”please stop!” It sounds like a transaxle system right now.
I tried some lube, but can’t seem to deshield it. It’s to the point right now where it doesn’t spin freely so I have some work to do. I don’t have the right tool to remove it and ITS TIGHT as documented in the build notes. Tried the freezer trick but still, no go.
Once I get this bearing figured out, I know I’m going to enjoy Queen Bee! She has such a nice feel in the hand with a great balance to weight ratio. I like regens so she is going to fit nicely with my play style. I’m using ZS Air string and it seems like a really good fit with this gap and the cork pads. The response is NICE and can handle a few wraps of this string which is very cool.
Well done @Lotaxi
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If you have drill bits grab the 5mm and use the back. Should work as a temporary bearing tool.
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Of course that’s the one missing from the set. Lol. Off to the hardware store.
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I was able to finagle the test bearing off with a pair of pliers on the OD of the bearing. It took some doing, but an ice cube pressed to the nipple inside the cup will shrink it pretty quick and let you wiggle it free. You’re essentially trying to cool the post faster than the bearing so that they shrink at different rates.
Its the kind of edge case where it’s right at the tippy top of my tolerance range and I could have re-run the post to get it closer to the center of the band, but I was worried that putting it back in the machine to try a skim pass would have pushed it underneath said tolerance and made it a really loose unit.
If it becomes a real issue, I’ll replace the unit for you. I’d rather you had something playable out the gate lol
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No issue at all! Just need the right tool. Got the center track in (de-shielded), added a spot of thick lube and we’re rockin. Definitely going to try and deshield the flat.
I don’t mind fiddling with bearings.
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Good to hear!
In regards to responsiveness, I know that I keep calling this a modern responsive, but one of the things I definitely intended to stay an option with the Queen was unresponsive play. The red string included in the bag and the center track bearing should be a pretty non-responsive combo from what I’ve tested. I wanted the design to ride the line between fully responsive and somewhat unresponsive. It should recall when you tug, but it should stay on the string without issues when you want it to.
So far I’ve mainly been seeing people lubing bearings to make it more conventionally responsive, but you should be able to push it toward one or the other as you wish with simple changes.
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