# What is the difference between the clyw center track and the yoyo factory center track? **URL:** \ **Category:** General Yo-Yo\ **Created:** [January 7, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803 "2013-01-07T01:45:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![newquezadabreed3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a8b319/32.png) [@newquezadabreed3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/newquezadabreed3)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/1 "2013-01-07T01:45:12Z")
Read the topic up top ---
**Author:** ![mgiroux77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mgiroux77/32/66801_2.png) [@mgiroux77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mgiroux77)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/2 "2013-01-07T01:46:53Z")
Nothing… It is the same bearing. ---
**Author:** ![Mr\_Yoyoguy](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mr_yoyoguy/32/922_2.png) [@Mr\_Yoyoguy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Mr_Yoyoguy)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/3 "2013-01-07T01:47:16Z")
I’m curious, too, my clyw ct’s play far above my yyf ct’s. ---
**Author:** ![yuki\_onitsura](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/yuki_onitsura/32/1162_2.png) [@yuki\_onitsura](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yuki_onitsura)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:48am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/4 "2013-01-07T01:48:34Z")
As far as I know, they’re the same bearing made by the Central Bearing Company. Yuki ---
**Author:** ![mgiroux77](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/mgiroux77/32/66801_2.png) [@mgiroux77](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/mgiroux77)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:02am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/5 "2013-01-07T02:02:55Z")
> [@Mr\_Yoyoguy](#): > > I’m curious, too, my clyw ct’s play far above my yyf ct’s. I wonder why that is?? ---
**Author:** ![DrAwesome](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/drawesome/32/1139_2.png) [@DrAwesome](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/DrAwesome)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:27am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/6 "2013-01-07T02:27:08Z")
Try changing the yoyo that’s its used in that’s a factor. Also one may not send their bearings out dry. If they both send them out slightly lubed they could use different lubes. That’s it really ---
**Author:** ![newquezadabreed3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a8b319/32.png) [@newquezadabreed3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/newquezadabreed3)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:32am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/7 "2013-01-07T02:32:39Z")
Has anyone tried to put their clyw ct in a yoyo factory yoyo? Maybe it is the yoyo ---
**Author:** ![stookie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/stookie/32/1071_2.png) [@stookie](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stookie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/8 "2013-01-07T02:33:46Z")
It is the yoyo. ---
**Author:** ![newquezadabreed3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a8b319/32.png) [@newquezadabreed3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/newquezadabreed3)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:35am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/9 "2013-01-07T02:35:34Z")
> [@stookie](#): > > It is the yoyo. are you sure because every yoyo I put my clyw ct it plays much better then I put the yyf ct and it plays worse ---
**Author:** ![jhauxfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhauxfan/32/838_2.png) [@jhauxfan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhauxfan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:46am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/10 "2013-01-07T02:46:00Z")
They are the EXACT same bearing. Sometimes the CLYW fan boys have a hard time believing that Caribou Chris would use a YYF part in his return tops. Indeed he does and they are good bearings in my opinion. ---
**Author:** ![newquezadabreed3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a8b319/32.png) [@newquezadabreed3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/newquezadabreed3)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 2:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/11 "2013-01-07T02:47:45Z")
Some one please ask Chris ---
**Author:** ![ReverseSquiggly](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/reversesquiggly/32/529_2.png) [@ReverseSquiggly](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ReverseSquiggly)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:08am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/12 "2013-01-07T03:08:13Z")
Same thing. [http://www.cariboublog.com/?s=center+trac](http://www.cariboublog.com/?s=center+trac) ---
**Author:** ![jhauxfan](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/jhauxfan/32/838_2.png) [@jhauxfan](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhauxfan)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/13 "2013-01-07T03:15:13Z")
Here’s some more info as well included in the AC review from Adam Brewster.  Chris chimes in and comments about the “Center trac” as well.  > **[CLYW ARCTIC CIRCLE - Definitive CLYW comparisons - Vol1.](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/forums/index.php/topic,45158.msg443704.html)** > > Great review Adam! One thing I must interject on … is that all of our gaps are the same. Haven’t changed them since we started. Don’t know who is measuring them, but their tools aren’t working so well. What we have changed though and what people... ---
**Author:** ![stookie](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/stookie/32/1071_2.png) [@stookie](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/stookie)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 3:22am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/14 "2013-01-07T03:22:52Z")
> [@sushi](#): > > > [@stookie](#): > > > > It is the yoyo. > > are you sure because every yoyo I put my clyw ct it plays much better then I put the yyf ct and it plays worse You’re only testing 2 bearings here, so what you’re seeing is variation between bearings. Doesn’t mean they’re from different sources. I have multiples of many types of bearings and really no two of them play exactly the same, make the same noise, or have the same life. ---
**Author:** ![anonyo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8baadc/32.png) [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 1:26pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/15 "2013-01-07T13:26:24Z")
I think they have more soul ---
**Author:** ![SR1](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/sr1/32/104603_2.png) [@SR1](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SR1)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 5:42pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/16 "2013-01-07T17:42:07Z")
It’s the yoyo that’s different, not the bearing. The bearing is the EXACT same Central Bearing Co. bearing sold on this site. ---
**Author:** ![j\_lowell9](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/forums.yoyoexpert.com/j_lowell9/32/358_2.png) [@j\_lowell9](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/j_lowell9)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2013, 6:17pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/what-is-the-difference-between-the-clyw-center-track-and-the-yoyo-factory-center-track/47803/17 "2013-01-07T18:17:44Z")
they are different, , unshielded the clyw centertracks have the same connected balls as say a onedrop bearing where yyf center tracs do not have the balls set up in this way Ill post a picture once i get home