I contacted Seastrom for more information about it and to see if I could get the shims, they seemed clueless. They said they made yoyos in the past but really couldn’t help.
I had some of the shims that are sold on YYE site and they worked great for adjusting the gap.
Got home late, and had to clean this thing up, looks like what ever was in the bearing worked it self out and was all over. I had to soaked the bearing and cleaned the pads. The old cotton string was nasty.
Here is a video of it spinning, it’s actually really smooth
I did find this on The Museum of Yo-Yo History site
Lots of these Tom Kuhn yo-yos are hard to score. Gotta bag em’ when you get an opportunity otherwise reset the counter because you may need to wait a decade.
it’s Ti Tues.
