# What is a "Dorothy" bearing for yoyos?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [July 11, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405 "2017-07-11T00:59:34Z")
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### Author:  [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 12:59am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/1 "2017-07-11T00:59:34Z")
Title says it all.
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### Author:  [@vegabomb](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/vegabomb)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 1:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/2 "2017-07-11T01:35:17Z")
It’s the bearing yoyofactory used to use. Why is it called Dorothy? Not sure, maybe an homage to the movie Twister.
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### Author:  [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 2:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/3 "2017-07-11T02:22:22Z")
> [@vegabomb](#):
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> It’s the bearing yoyofactory used to use. Why is it called Dorothy? Not sure, maybe an homage to the movie Twister.
Thanks for the reply! 🙂 Was it a different shape or just what it was called?
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### Author:  [@jrodriguez](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jrodriguez)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/4 "2017-07-11T02:33:08Z")
No. They were flat. It was YYF’s high end bearing and the one I had worked like a bearing should. That said, they had a bit of a bad rep for seizing up and YYF eventually ditched them.
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### Author:  [@yoyodoc](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyodoc)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/5 "2017-07-11T02:33:19Z")
Dorothy
The Dorothy bearing used in YoYoFactory’s premium yo-yos is also intended to be played dry and not cleaned. It has been speculated that they use Teflon coated parts. These bearings were considered to be very temperamental by some players, as they were prone to locking up. These have been replaced in all YoYoFactory premium yo-yos with the newer SPEC bearings.
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### Author:  [@Cannon](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Cannon)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/6 "2017-07-11T02:46:52Z")
Thanks for all the replies guys! Very helpful! 🙂
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### Author:  [@JDSuperhero](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/JDSuperhero)
#### Post date: [July 11, 2017, 5:19pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/7 "2017-07-11T17:19:34Z")
> [@vegabomb](#):
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> It’s the bearing yoyofactory used to use. Why is it called Dorothy? Not sure, maybe an homage to the movie Twister.
but the Dorothy in Twister was a reference to The Wizard of Oz… a reference of a reference? Reference-ception!
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### Author:  [@nightshadow](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/nightshadow)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 5:25am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/8 "2017-07-30T05:25:00Z")
> [@yoyodoc](#):
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> Dorothy
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> The Dorothy bearing used in YoYoFactory’s premium yo-yos is also intended to be played dry and not cleaned. It has been speculated that they use Teflon coated parts. These bearings were considered to be very temperamental by some players, as they were prone to locking up. These have been replaced in all YoYoFactory premium yo-yos with the newer SPEC bearings.
Interesting! Of course now the spec bearings have been replaced with Ct bearings. ُI wonder what’s next…
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### Author:  [@genji](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/genji)
#### Post date: [July 30, 2017, 7:22pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-a-dorothy-bearing-for-yoyos/84405/9 "2017-07-30T19:22:37Z")
> [@JDSuperhero](#):
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> but the Dorothy in Twister was a reference to The Wizard of Oz… a reference of a reference? Reference-ception!
Actually…this is false. It wasn’t named after Dorothy from the Wizard of Oz. Everyone knows that Ben McPhee and YoHans are huge…and I mean HUGGGGGGGGGGGGE Golden Girls fans, like it’s ridic. The Dorothy bearing is actually named after their favorite Character on the show. They didn’t name it ‘Bea’ because they didn’t want it to be confused with the letter ‘B’
Dorothy Zbornak is a fictional character from the TV series The Golden Girls, portrayed by Bea Arthur for 7 years and 183 episodes. Dorothy was the strong, smart, sarcastic, sometimes intimidating, and arguably most grounded of the four women in the house. Though tough, she is normally friendly, polite and does genuinely care for the other girls.