My Powerball isn as smooth as it used to be. Whats wrong?
This is a common complaint and is easy to solve. When you first take the ball from its box, you will note the perfectly fluid and silent action with which it operates – the rotor whirr’s away and there is no noise, bar that ‘jet fighter’ sound as the speed increases… After a few weeks of use however, this lovely fluid movement and silent rotation can be replaced by a noisy, gravely movement, which, although still yielding out much the same torque, doesn’t offer as much pleasure of use as from when it was new and you probably wonder, just what might be wrong with it all? Well, what we have found from experience is that our customers (and ourselves included early on) would take the ball and spin it up to, say, 10,000rpm – at which point their limbs become tired and they cease building the speed and slacken or loosen their (tired) hand grip on the gyro. Now, despite the fact that the rotor itself is absolutely perfect in its balance, it is still travelling at around 9000rpm and is putti
