BLTyoyoworks, 3rd run of prototypes finished!

Messaged you about this but I saw you had to post in this thread

7-8/10

were these hand machined?

Honestly, we aren’t completely sure what his process is, but they are computer driven machines.

I must be blind, I can’t see if you posted the specs. And these don’t have an IRG do they?

We never posted the specs. will do shortly.

Specs!

Width: 39 mm
Diameter: 52.5 mm
bearing: size C (will come with one drop ten ball)
response: CBC slim pad
Weight is still unknown

how do you not know the weight? didn’t you turn one out already?

and it’s pretty skinny.

we just haven’t accurately weighed it yet. everyone’s been busy. as for the skinniness, we’re going to widen the gap out about 1 or 2 mm.

my ideal width is like 42 to 43mm, the yoyo looks nice though when do you think the prototypes will be made?
EDIT: For better words when will the FINAL prototypes be made?

that depends on how long the testers take to give feedback. we probably won’t get another set for at least a month.

Hey, quick question, I finally got the volume working, but for I can’t get the weight right. It says the volume of another design that I have is 13.77 cm3, but that comes out to be 37 grams. Does anybody know why? is that about right for the volume?

I think so its just for one haft of the yoyo!

no, I made sure that it’s for the whole yoyo. the volume for one half is 6.889, so I doubled that to get the volume of the whole yoyo, which is 13.

9, i’d really love to try this thing out, i also really want to know how to review a pre-production yoyo with more accuracy (my friend is beggining to produce some stuff) Maybe this could work for both of us? Hit me up!

well i may be doing something wrong, but that volume dosent sound right… from what I’ve read the density of 6061 aluminum is 2.7 grams per cm^3, so in a 66 gram yoyo (assuming the yoyo minus the response axle and bearing, weighs 66 grams, a bit of a heavy yoyo, but I’m using it for arguments sake) the volume should be 24.4444…etc… cm^3 so the 6.889 would make sense more as a quarter of the yoyo… because didn’t you say your yo-yos were a bit on the heavy side (they looked it from the CAD, but idk, i might just be imagining things).
thanks,
FlyCaster

Well if you have a proto then go to the supermarket and have them put it on a meat scale.( put together with bearing) problem solved.

ghost: yes, we’re going to weigh them soon

Fly: I just don’t know, it did look heavy to me, but It gave me that volume

Where/how did you get that volume?
Just curious.

I use a different kind of software as well, called blender. it’s not for design, but for animation and art and stuff. I replicated the design in blender and then found a plugin that calculates the volume and used that.

I’d be glad to test one out.