$1 aluminum yoyo with a bearing

No rust under the powder coated ones.

Well I know where Iā€™m going tomorrow ! :wink:

Hows their vibe?

lol really?

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Itā€™s vibe-tacular!

Its great at fingerspins too, right? I will NOT buy one unless its good at fingerspings. Hahahahaha

I cant even do a fingerspin on my shutter.

It sucks fo dat^

Just got oneā€¦ Not badā€¦ Going to play walk the dog for the ā€œpinprickā€ threadā€¦

Maybe sand and polish (try)

And maybe paint itZz

I really need to go to dollar tree and buy a few. Just to try.

Just get one, are you going to do 2a?

Donā€™t you do mods?

Obviously, for mods!

I mean, I bought 2, one in each ā€œspayed on colorwayā€. I got 2 more, to give to my kid, but I will see how my mod of cleaning the bearing works first. I donā€™t want him to get a dud of a yoyo.

The SPR solution looks appealing an if I have one laying around(I think I do but for A-sized bearings), I might give that a shot. I gotta check my parts bin and see what I got.

No well if they come with bearings and stuff it would be nice to have a few. Maybe i can get sone of my friends to learn with them too. They are only a dollar. Ive got more than one of those that im willing to spend.

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Thatā€™s high comedy :))

I gotta say, Clownboy, you cant be a complete idiot. You must be missing a few parts.

ā€¦Reading and understanding what you read, are two entirely different things.

Who? < like in ā€˜Whoā€™? said ā€˜youā€™ cant enjoy modding this cheap yoyo? Your hands tied? My holding a gun on you?

My post was my opinion and based in Reality. You seem to think I cant post up anything that you ā€˜might not likeā€™ā€¦ Not quite sure why you somehow feel posting 5000 times in a year, somehow entitles you to dictate what I post?

And then you put words up for me and lock you cap key for effect, lol.

I got some bad news for you. I am not a ā€˜better modderā€™ than you because I have been ā€˜in the Communityā€™ longer than you. ALL you guys have a good chance of eventually becoming a better Modder than I have ever been. You simply have to realize that my advantage is that I started ā€˜moddingā€™ cars and Harley Choppers, 45 years ago. I have Extensive Experience Customizing all kinds of stuff. I was not some kind of natural Genius. I have been learning how to Tweak things for Decades. < Learn by Doing? < I did. Was it easy for me? Nope. I screwed up this and that along the way.

You talk about painting yoyos and kendamas and such. Good for you. I was a Car and Motorcycle painter for over 20 years. I actually got good enough to Teach people how to paint Cars. But I have never, ever, painted a yoyoā€¦ Ever. My yoyo modding is mainly Performance based. Painting yoyos may be Barrels of fun? I Love painting stuff. But I see No Performance advantage in painting a yoyo. Zero. Nothing wrong with you or anybody that wants to paint a yoyo or all their yoyos. Make em pretty. Make em different. Good. But to me, if it doesnt make the yoyo play better, I dont bother with it. Regardless, anything you do to a stock yoyo is modding it, technically. Modding means to Modify. So you can rightfully say you modded a yoyo and done nothing to improve itsā€™ performance. But my efforts in modding are mainly performance based. That does not make my mods better, I just focus on different end results.

Nobody starts Karate as a Blackbelt. And I didnt start Customizing as an Expert. But as the years flew by, things started clicking and I got better.

And then in 1998 I got a yoyo. I knew NO tricks except how to throw the yoyo down and make it sleep. My girl laughed. She said, 'Boy got a toy and cant even do any tricks with it, lol. I told her, ā€˜I bet I can make it play betterā€™. < Cuz that is what I do. I dont do things(tricks) I do things to things(mod).

ā€¦So my advantage over you is simple. I started modding stuff before your father was born. I started Customizing yoyos before you were born.

When I won the 3 consecutive World Modding Contests, you were at 3 different stages of Existence. When I won in 2001, you were prolly just being born. When I won in 2002, you prolly still crawling around in your Crib. When I won in 2003, you were most likely being potty trained and learning to eat baby cereal with your hands. When I received the National Achievement Award in 2005( For effort that improves the sport, and positively influences the Yoyo Industry), you were most likely in Kindergarten, if that.

If I fell off a 100 story building and landed directly on my head, but somehow survived. And suffered 95 percent brain damage. And of the final 5 percent, I went into a coma for 4 years and had 90 percent amnesia of the 5 remaining percent of my brain, I would still remember More about Modding yoyos than you will prolly learn in the next 10 years, if ever.

You, little mad dog, are a bitter little kid. A whiner, a baby brat. And a Junior Control freak. You dont like the way something sounds, you want people to ā€˜go awayā€™ or at the very least, word stuff so it passes your guidelines for posting. Sad for you. You aint my momma and you arent my daddy.
ā€¦If you dont care for something I post, because you are just to ignorant to even understand what I say/said, contact the Modsā€¦ Contact Andre by email. Let them know about big bad Mo. That he made you cry yourself to sleep because he wont behave according to your Rulesā€¦ wah wah wah.

And sending me verbally threatening PMs? what are/were you thinking? How in the World do you think that sending me PMs, telling me you arent going to put up with my posting things you dont care to read? <<<< You are some kinda Pinhead, ya think?

Mad Puppy, I have some reasonably ā€˜okā€™ advice for you, since I know your head is thicker than Prison Steel <> Enjoy your youth as an Excuse for being Ignorant. But prepare yourself for that day when you no longer can hide your attitude behind your young mask. You keep talking smack to people and one day when you ā€˜are all of a sudden olderā€™, you are going to Yap at the wrong person and they are going to Punch your timeclock.

ā€¦I NEVER meant to discourage Anybody from Modding anything. I encourage Everybody to Try and Mod Everything; I do. To me, everything I look at seems to need modding.

I simply meant just what I said. I will word it differently. You can to a whole lotta work to that 1 dollar yoyo, but dont expect to magically turn it into something amazing.

Mod away. I already had 3 of them before you guys even started talking about em. We have Dollar trees all over in Southern California.

I got 2 black ones and one of the Burgundy looking ones. They are tin and they vibe Crazy and they are light as a feather. But then again, they are FUN! My point was why bother bringing something back from the dead? Start with something more alive and improve it so you end up with something.
I would agree ā€¦ like Hendy said, he will get some because they might be good projects.

I should have mentioned that I already was aware of what you ā€˜get for that buckā€™.

I just like the idea of trying to see what I can do, trickwise, on the Buck yoyo, dead stock? After playing with hundreds of yoyos that ā€˜flyā€™, it is Great to have a yoyo that is pretty much ā€˜all wrongā€™ hahahahaha. Cheap bearing, Lame response system, feather light halves with No functional rim weight, ugly cheap sticky finish, etc. < This yoyo could not be a better challenge than it is Dead Stock. (for modding or throwing for that matter). I understand that some modders may not even like throwing. They may just love or prefer to mod. Yoing is necessarily all about throwing. Could be throwing or modding or collecting or trying to make money buying and selling. Or a combination of everything. I am certainly much better at Modding than I am at throwing, haha.

Remember the first time you got a wooden yoyo and tried to do stuff on it?

Well, this is the Perfect yoyo to see throw, just the way it comes out of the package.

I got 3 because I am going to leave one in the package. I am going to play the heck out of the second one and I am going to Mod the 3rd one.

Oh Noā€¦ Mo is going to actually Mod a one dollar yoyo? No doubt.

And I will say the exact thing I told my girl, 15 years ago. I bet I can make this play better.

I bet I can.

Quit being a crybaby, mad doggy.

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Well. That escalated quickly


So Iā€™ll skip the normal mo-ramblings and get to the pointā€¦

The first one I took out of the package actually spins pretty well, and it has no vibe to speak of.

For $1 they got everything right.

This thing isnā€™t even remotely comparable to the other dollar store **** weā€™ve seen over the years. Itā€™s miles better than the dirt cheap offerings from some major companies tooā€¦ you canā€™t even buy an imperial for this price.

Is it a great yoyo? of course not IT COSTS $1.

Honestly Iā€™d take this first one I opened over a lot of the other junk out there selling for a whole heck of a lot more money.

Of course I donā€™t expect them all to be great, and some will certainly be garbage by comparisonā€¦ but Iā€™d bet they still all outperform the cheap junk offered by some major companies.

Kyle

Iā€™ve been playing with one of the two I got.

I guess fun is mostly a matter of state of mind. Iā€™m having fun with this bit of folded tin.

I will agree. This is not your typical dollar star junker. It ainā€™t amazing, but itā€™s not all bad.

Man, Iā€™ve been out of the loop. Guess I should go over to the dollar store tomorrow

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When you make 50% of the posts on YYE every single day you learn a thing or two. So far it doesnā€™t seem that any of those things are useful or positive. But heā€™s definitely learned them.

Amazing sighting! Kyle, my ole school Fat Aā€¦ fellow modder. Drags his Arrogance out of Hibernation, just to take a shot at me, here and there, hahaha.

Now, here you are to save the day for a one dollar yoyo!

I will agree with some of what you said about the Dollar yoyo.

It is much better than anything they have pretty much had, ever. The Chinese did do an Excellent job considering the final end user cost is a Dollar. And I guess, for a dollar, they did get everything rightā€¦ for a dollar/right/ anyways.

Since you mentioned yours played pretty smooth out of the box, I went ahead and took all 3 of mine out of the packages. And All 3 of them could vibrate my fillings loose. < The dont really Wobble. But they vibe like Crazy.

The yoyo is fun for sure. Hey, you cant even buy most candy bars for a buck, haha.

I may buy 10 more tomorrow, just to see if I can get a Kyle Smooth one.

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