So I have made a decision. I’m not too happy with my Sprout. I really don’t like the mini size. I want to sell it or trade it for something with like an h shape or v-shape or V-H shape. Definitely looking for something larger.
I paid $108 with tax so I was thinking let’s say 80 shipped. US only.
I would personally rather trade so I can see what kind of cool deals I can get but I’m not excited about it. The bearing that it originally came with was bad so I replaced it with a VIP bearing and it seems to be fine unless you have another bearing to replace it with.
I did throw it away. I took it apart. I cleaned it. I scrubbed it. I did everything. It just didn’t want to spin right but it also had like a grind in it but I couldn’t find anything. I cleaned it many times with acetone and then I would like try to spin it. It just did not want to work. It worked good for like a day but then the next day it was just all messed up.
It would only sleep for like 15 to 20 seconds but it had like this grindy vibration and like I said even after taking it apart while taking the shields off I acetoned it many times I took a toothbrush to the inside to see if I can like wiggle something out. It just never played right.
I put the VIP bearing that I had cuz it was brand new and it seems to be working fine. The bearing’s a little louder but I don’t see any issues with it. It’s smooth so you might not even need a new bearing. I’m not highly skilled with like yo-yo tricks and stuff so I’m still learning but to me the bearing that’s in it seems to be okay
when you cleaned the bearing, did you remove the c-rings and shields and then reinstall them? (if it was shielded to begin with that is)
ive had bearings feel just like you describe and found one of the c-rings on the shields wasnt locked in quite right. popped it off, put it back on correctly, bearing worked perfect.
