Metal Powerball Concern!

[the_spice_must_flow]

Hi all,

I have just got onto this whole powerball thing, and have just purchased a metal 350hz,which is pretty awesome, i bought it on **** (sorry!!), but i'm a skint student and needed to save a few pennies, it appears to be a direct from tawain job as the packaging is marked with the tawain web address, anyway i have just established that there is to be a lightweight screamer rotor coming out and i appear to not be getting that as standard as i would have if i bought direct (so maybe have not saved after all!!!!!)....does anyone know the approx likely price of this replacement rotor when avail?....also after a couple of days use, i have noticed the rotor seems to have slackened off a fair bit and knocks kinds of knocks a little, is this normal?

P.s ...best score yet is 9536 in the 2 days i have owned it.

Cheers lads.

[Adrena1in]

Hi there fella, and welcome to the Powerball Forums.

At the moment, the lightweight Screamer rotor is still in production, and isn't likely to be released for a while. As far as I know, buying from this site doesn't necessarily mean you'd get this new rotor either. I'm under the belief that it'll be sold separately, or, when it's released, people will be able to buy 350Hz Metal Powerballs with either or both rotors.

Can you describe a bit more this "slackening off" and "knocking" of the rotor? After some use Powerballs do "bed in" a bit...start to feel and sound different. At the worst this should just make the Powerball a bit noisier, and feel a bit rougher. Any knocking could be down to a dent on one of the inner tracks with the rotor axle rolls along. Each rotation of your wrist will cause the axle to roll over the dent, thus making it knock.

Simple thing to do is open up the Powerball, prize out the rotor and the plastic tracks, and make sure they don't have any dents. If one does, do you have a replacement with yours? Just pop that one in if so. If not, just hold fire for a bit as they should be available in the on-line shop soon.

Hope that helps.
Tim.

[the_spice_must_flow]

Thats for the reply...perhaps i just bein g paranoid re: the slackening off and slight knocking!....its kinda hard to explain the prob, though its like if u dont catch the spinning balls torqueyist (sorry for spelling!!) stroke if that makes sense it is sort of out of sink and seems to knock about a bit until you catch the right motion again?!

Re; replacement light weight rotors...how cool would a full-on carbon fibre job be!!!!...aslo why dont the ball have top-flight sealed cartrige bearings, it strickes me that the flimsy plastic parts could be improved on!?

[Sayex]

just about the screamer rotor.. i saked long about the price of it.
and it seems it would be around the 20 USD.
i think it was something like that... anyway
Regards an dWelcome to the forum

[weee]

Thats for the reply...perhaps i just bein g paranoid re: the slackening off and slight knocking!....its kinda hard to explain the prob, though its like if u dont catch the spinning balls torqueyist (sorry for spelling!!) stroke if that makes sense it is sort of out of sink and seems to knock about a bit until you catch the right motion again?!


Sounds like a problem with your technique to me, not the powerball, I do the same pretty severely when trying to use my left hand in my weaker turning direction on the metal