i care for my yoyo like its my baby. i clean it, i never had a ding since i bought it. How is it that the spacer got stuck to the bearing and it wont come off. i tried pliers but it would only scratch the spacer which sucked. and the axle is kinda wobbly.
It happens. It is normal for those YYF spacers to get stuck in the bearing. I like to put a pocket knife blade between the bearing and spacer and gently pry them apart.
i actually prefer keeping my spacers like that. i mean. if you need to clean the bearing…take e’m off. otherwise, leave them on! I obeserved that a yoyo splays smoother when the bearing is stuck to the spacers.
The axle is wobbly because it is just a hex cap screw in a clearance hole. When you put it back together, the nut in the other half will pull the spacers and the shells together in alignment. That’s why they use spacers - to line the whole thing up reasonably well.