The awesome One Drop guys set me up with some new axle nuts they designed to try out in my delrin yoyos. The nut is a very cool design that was intended to serve as both an axle nut and a bearing seat (the new is on the right, the Y-Factor style nut is on the left).
For an aluminum yoyo, it’s a brilliant design. For a delrin yoyo, the walls have to be too thin to use the new nut as a bearing post. But David of OD thought that it would look cool as a hub, and I agreed. Unfortunately, I’ve not had much time in the past month to experiment, but I had a free day today so I went to work on a design that someone had asked me to adapt. Boy did I miss the mark!
Diameter: 55mm
Width: 44mm
Weight: 77 grams (yes, Seventy7 … my calculations, it seems, were erroneous)
Response/Bearing: Crucial pad spacers, C bearing, ghost pad
The fellow who asked me to do this was looking for something in the 64-ish gram range. (Sorry Ben! I’ll have to go back to the drawing board …) In any event, even though it didn’t come out according to plan, it’s a blast to play and I think the nuts look great as hubs. Thanks for those OD guys! I’m looking forward to experimenting with them further, and to giving Alex’s new axle system a whirl.
Comparison shot with an FHZ:
