# 3YO3 Retaps and other mods
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366
**Category:** Yo-Yo Mods and Maintenance
**Created:** [October 20, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366 "2013-10-20T15:30:56Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 3:30pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/1 "2013-10-20T15:30:56Z")
Hey guys just a reminder I’m still here and still ready to take on new work!
-siliconing/deepening existing groove/high walling
-retaps using helicoil inserts (stainless steel thread insert, actually had one customer overtighten the yoyo after being helicoiled w a mild steel axle and the axle broke in 2!)
-pretty much anything you can think of (hundreds of yoyos made by hand, 2x world mod contest, degreed engineer)
Sorta irrelevant but I also do CAD design.
Cheers!
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### Author:  [@Casey888](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Casey888)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 3:33pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/2 "2013-10-20T15:33:59Z")
> [@3yo3](#):
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> Hey guys just a reminder I’m still here and still ready to take on new work!
>
> -siliconing/deepening existing groove/high walling
> -retaps using helicoil inserts (stainless steel thread insert, actually had one customer overtighten the yoyo after being helicoiled w a mild steel axle and the axle broke in 2!)
> -pretty much anything you can think of (hundreds of yoyos made by hand, 2x world mod contest, degreed engineer)
>
> Sorta irrelevant but I also do CAD design.
>
> Cheers!
Good to know! I wasn’t sure if you were still around, but I love your work. I have a friend with an axle strip on an arctic circle. I’m going to have him send it to you.
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2013, 3:48pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/3 "2013-10-20T15:48:08Z")
Hey thanks!!
I’ve been modding since 2001 so consider me permanently around haha
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### Author:  [@SloppyBinds](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SloppyBinds)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 1:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/4 "2013-10-21T01:05:19Z")
Good to know! I’ve been thinking about contacting you. Do you work with wood at all?
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 7:32pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/5 "2013-10-21T19:32:48Z")
I can but really prefer to avoid to haha
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### Author:  [@MYNAMEISZen](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/MYNAMEISZen)
#### Post date: [October 21, 2013, 9:23pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/6 "2013-10-21T21:23:00Z")
Do you mod metals at all? 🙂 like changing the shape?
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### Author:  [@SloppyBinds](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/SloppyBinds)
#### Post date: [October 22, 2013, 12:18am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/7 "2013-10-22T00:18:20Z")
> [@3yo3](#):
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> I can but really prefer to avoid to haha
Haha, gotcha. Thanks for responsing my query.
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### Author:  [@Bcmaddog](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Bcmaddog)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 12:17am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/8 "2013-10-24T00:17:53Z")
> [@MYNAMEISZen](#):
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> Do you mod metals at all? 🙂 like changing the shape?
He produces a metal model…
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### Author:  [@Casey888](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Casey888)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 1:45am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/9 "2013-10-24T01:45:45Z")
> [@Bcmaddog](#):
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> He produces a metal model…
That doesn’t mean he is comfortable with physically changing the shape. To my knowledge he doesn’t hand turn every Al5
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### Author:  [@Yonut](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yonut)
#### Post date: [October 24, 2013, 4:30am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/10 "2013-10-24T04:30:44Z")
> [@kclejeune](#):
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> That doesn’t mean he is comfortable with physically changing the shape. To my knowledge he doesn’t hand turn every Al5
I remember reading somewhere that he hand turns his plastics.
However, metal is significantly harder to work with, I doubt too that he would be able to hand turn an Al5, nor do anything extreme to a metal yoyo on a lathe without CAD and the like.
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2013, 10:40am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/11 "2013-10-25T10:40:49Z")
As for modding metals, there are a lot of factors that go into it (thickness of walls, general shape, what practices were used to manufacture that yoyo, etc.) Some I would be able to mod, and others I won’t. I have chopped Pyros to be narrower, changed Peaks to have a narrower gap by bringing the mating face of the bearing deeper into the yoyo, hubs from one metal into another metal (One Drop Project into a YYR), changed A Bearing yoyo to be a D Bearing, deepened response grooves in YYRs to accept flowable silicone, etc.
If you’d like me to mod something, just ask or post and I’ll let you know if it is possible. 🙂
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### Author:  [@Yonut](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Yonut)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2013, 1:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/12 "2013-10-25T13:53:51Z")
That is impressive. 🙂
Few modders, from what I’ve seen, can really mod metal, and you are doing stuff to metal that is almost unheard of.
Just curious, would you know how to make a highwalled yoyo take Side Effects?
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### Author:  [@Snafu](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Snafu)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/13 "2013-10-25T13:57:01Z")
I’ll figure out what else I have that could use a mod and I’ll message you a list and maybe we can do a bulk deal?
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [November 18, 2013, 3:51am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/14 "2013-11-18T03:51:03Z")
> [@Snafu](#):
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> I’ll figure out what else I have that could use a mod and I’ll message you a list and maybe we can do a bulk deal?
Sounds good to me!
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### Author:  [@anonyo](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/anonyo)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2013, 2:15am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/15 "2013-11-22T02:15:50Z")
Can you do this? Cut down the rims on a dv888 (the flat spot of rims) and replace it with slanted Delrin rims? Like the werrd yoyos with the Delrin rims?
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### Author:  [@Joralco](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Joralco)
#### Post date: [November 22, 2013, 2:33am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/16 "2013-11-22T02:33:41Z")
Can you make a freehand zero compatible with a C size bearing?
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2013, 5:16am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/17 "2013-11-23T05:16:03Z")
> [@Joralco](#):
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> Can you make a freehand zero compatible with a C size bearing?
Yep!! Done it plenty. Just has to be a non-factory or non-previously recessed yoyo.
> [@yoyoexpertman54](#):
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> Can you do this? Cut down the rims on a dv888 (the flat spot of rims) and replace it with slanted Delrin rims? Like the werrd yoyos with the Delrin rims?
I could but no guarantee it’s going to be smooth after haha
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### Author:  [@Joralco](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Joralco)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2013, 2:53pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/18 "2013-11-23T14:53:48Z")
How much would it cost?
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### Author:  [@jhb8426](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/jhb8426)
#### Post date: [November 23, 2013, 7:03pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/19 "2013-11-23T19:03:13Z")
> [@Joralco](#):
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> How much would it cost?
Maybe you should take this to a PM for price negotiations.
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### Author:  [@3yo3](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/3yo3)
#### Post date: [February 5, 2014, 5:55pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/3yo3-retaps-and-other-mods/60366/20 "2014-02-05T17:55:28Z")
Just a bump to let you all know we’re still here!!! PM me for mod & re-tap inquiries
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