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After sending those yoyos to cousin-kiddos, I got my old butterfly yoyo out. The string isn't in good shape. It's probably 30 years old. At some point I cut it off and tied/knotted it back to the axle. This prevents it from sleeping and from being able to do tricks. I never learned how to do sleeping tricks with a yoyo to begin with, so I didn't know that the string was supposed to be loose on the axle until I read the packaging that came with the new yoyos for cousin-kiddos.
Now, after taking the old string off my old yoyo, I see that the axle is rusty too. So that would need to be replaced too.
Then I got to reading about yoyos, and learned that mine is a fixed-axle yoyo. More modern ones are made with ball bearings in the center, which allow them to sleep for longer periods than fixed-axle ones do.
Hunh. The ones I bought for cousin-kiddos are the ball-bearing kind, and I didn't even realize it.
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And this is why, not only does it take me 2 hours to order a simple replacement yoyo string, but that in the end I decide not to even get it. I may as well get a new yoyo instead.
Now, after taking the old string off my old yoyo, I see that the axle is rusty too. So that would need to be replaced too.
Then I got to reading about yoyos, and learned that mine is a fixed-axle yoyo. More modern ones are made with ball bearings in the center, which allow them to sleep for longer periods than fixed-axle ones do.
Hunh. The ones I bought for cousin-kiddos are the ball-bearing kind, and I didn't even realize it.
.
And this is why, not only does it take me 2 hours to order a simple replacement yoyo string, but that in the end I decide not to even get it. I may as well get a new yoyo instead.