I’ve been hearing this a lot: “Use as little lube as possible” and I know it’s cuz overlubing bearings is a pain to deal with but I keep imagining this:
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I … don’t get it?
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What in the crikey-heck is that suppose to mean?
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Isn’t it obvious?
Ratatouille reference?
I still… don’t get it???
Yep, I’m also still firmly in the ‘I don’t get it’ camp.
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In a vain and probably futile attempt to make this topic useful… I have tubes of
- yoyofactory responsive oil (thick) looks like some used but LOTS in there
- yoyofactory dark matter lube (thin) never opened
Who needs lube and wants them? I’ll mail them both to you for the cost of postage, let’s call it $3?
I… Don’t get it?
Jokes aside, yes. You really should put a little lube the size of a teeny tiny small drop at the end of a pin. I learned this the hard way.
You can spin out any excess with compressed air no problem. But you need to have access to compressed air, of course…
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If you put in WAY too much you probably should clean it with the paper clean method.
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I have only used my thin lube once and only because the bearing sound like it had a death rattle
People say to “use as little as possible” which is completely legitimate advice but w/o context it makes you sound like a Scrooge. 
probably
that was the joke anyway
couldn’t you also just throw it really hard for like 5 minutes?
In my experience you’d have to throw it for hours … many hours … to get excess lube out… 5 minutes definitely no. Easier to go the compressed air route 
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alternatively you can use “as little as possible. then put less”