The redesigned Butterfly XT is easily one of the best budget model entry-level yo-yos available. It’s a bearing yo-yo with starburst response system and an added 4 grams. The additional weight and new starburst response made it so much easier for beginners to learn the most important basic tricks.
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Just snagged one of these bad boys at Target on Sunday. A solid buy.
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I love these. They’re so cheap I bought a few. I did some cap swaps and modded a wide groove in them to take flowable silicone. It makes stalls nice and snappy.
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How’d you get your caps off?
I tried a suction cup…but I think the caps are wielded on to mine. >.<’
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oh yessss!!! so hyped!
I used the bolt and pushed down on a hard surface. Most of the caps popped off easily except for one and the bolt left a white mark where it was pushing against the cap. I heard back in the FHZ days that some people would put them in the freezer and that helped, but I never tried it.
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A hammer applied to the axle usually. I’m not kidding either.
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I might just try the freezer method before taking a hammer to mine haha 
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I really like that color combination.
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That is so cool!
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How did you mod the wide groove?
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Stoked!
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Those look great. I really prefer the solid colors over translucent.
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I used a mini wood lathe and a 1/4” chisel.
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Can’t wait to get a couple of these. OG XT was really fun to play with.
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I love how whimsical and fun these colors are. I can’t wait to start seeing these in stores!
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@YoYoExpertGarrett Are the specs up-to-date? Especially the weight and size C bearing listed.
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What is different between this redesign and the old one?
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As far as I’m aware, they just added 4 grams of weight to the original XT and moved around the weight distribution. Seems like a tiny update, but it made a ton of difference.
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I only updated the weight because I assumed the shape was the same. After checking the new Butterfly XT has about 1mm larger diameter, same width. Updating stats now.
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