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For those of you that work in machining, do you think that the quality of aluminum has much impact on a yoyo? There very little stress involved, it’s not like it’s an aircraft part. Perhaps the bearing seat and threading could be an issue? Still, i dont hear about many failures.
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Booooo!
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This is just wrong in the yoyo context? Both yoyofactory and onedrop have very competitively priced usa made products!
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While the price would be higher, you are missing that everything is consciousness including molecules, atoms, and elements. All of these elements and the elements that make up the human body are quantum entangled in the unified field. Therefore if you purchase a yoyo from One Drop, for example, then the designing, manufacturing, and packaging is being done by the same limited number of people who will have imprinted their super cool vibe of quantum consciousness into the very dark matter composition of the yoyo. There may be limited imprint from the outsourced anodizer as well, but as long as he is in a good mood this is likely negligible. Shipping should not be too great a concern since the yoyo is unseen and contents unknown and therefore unaffected. If you are at all empathic then even if the yoyo is more expensive it will make you feel different when when you play it, because you are becoming quantum entangled with everyone who had a hand in the manufacturing.
Conversely if the yoyo is produced in ways that are less personal and many people who have no real care in manufacturing the product other than meeting a specification tolerance and who may have a cellular oscillation that is less than desirable; well then that will quantum imprint on the yoyo as well.
This same principle can be felt in the food you eat as well for example. You can give two chefs the same ingredients and recipes, but if one chef is super angry then intuitively you will not like that dish as much as the happy chef. Also, it has been often repeated that if you plant two seeds and you tell one that it’s amazing and beautiful everyday it grows while telling the other it’s a disgusting worthless disgrace; the loved plant will repeatedly outperform the hated plant when all other conditions are the same. Generally the hated plant just dies altogether in the experiments!
Additionally did you know that a Japanese Scientist (Emoto) showed that if you tell a sample of water that it’s terrible or ugly then it will refuse to form crystalline structure when frozen. Conversely, if you tell water you love it and are grateful for it then it would form beautiful crystals!
Since by weight you are 60-70% water and by molecule count you are 98% water it doesn’t matter where it is produced. What matters is the oscillating frequency and dark matter quantum imprint left behind by WHO had a hand in all stages of the production.
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Eternal Truth. Thank you!
You must have some good cellular oscillation going on. 
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This is weirdly a direct copy-paste (aside from the first sentence) of @TheThrowingGnome ’s post from last year
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Lol!
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Maybe they’re quantum entangled!
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#TRIGGERED
But bruh no one said anything about YYF’s Chinese yo-yos yet 
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How is this a red flag?
There are very large engineering firms that still prohibit the use of materials of certain origins on projects. I reviewed one of these the other day. Are they merely racist? I am not claiming to be a metallurgist, but it is very common knowledge that this verbiage exists.
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Milling or turning aluminum in part is removing the internal stresses of the material. How the material is made and its composition all affect your end result.
Most of the machining work i do for clients requires material traceability (documenting the materials production origin) and material composition certs detailing the metallurgy, hardness, porosity, etc that all shows its within tolerance to be classified as what the material claims to be.
These certifications are in part because of government regulations that require domestic traceability for a multitude of their own reasoning. Ask any US based aerospace or military CNC shop and they will tell you this is par for the course, as many customers will simply not (or cannot legally) purchase molds and parts made with import material.
I have worked with Import material that has done just fine for its application (in house tooling for fixturing and work holding) while i have had customers that requested import plate that bowed out like a sail boat the minute a face mill so much as skimmed it. I could go on and on about this but at the end of the day, our rules and regulations around production and metals are more strict FOR our own usage and benefit. Most of my reasoning is coming from a much more critical application than making yoyos.
I once again would like to reiterate, I’m explaining my own experiences and how it pertains to my job mostly making aerospace components and molds for composite parts. To say another country doesn’t make good yoyos is a flat out lie. I only seek to explain how material, its origin, composition, and how it behaves under stress are all absolutely dependent on the quality of the material being used. I use domestic material for any of my own projects because i know exactly how it will behave.
- Mario
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If a large engineering project fails it’s great to have a legal recourse in a certain jurisdiction in the even of a failure…. But this is a yoyo and evidence of failure will not be as significant and evidence of it will be easier to attribute at the time of purchase.
I’m merely suggesting
There is bad metal in China. There is bad metal in the usa.
Country of origin has nothing to do with it.
There are skilled operators in China. There are skilled operators in the USA.
Country of origin has nothing to do with it.
There are misses in QC in China. There are misses in QC in the USA.
Country of origin has nothing to do with it.
We make YoYos in both. Choice is great.
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Bad metal exists. Usually it’s in the way it’s formed. Aluminum needs to get into a bar before it’s turned into a yoyo. It can be formed into a bar in hot ways (poured) or cold formed (rolled) or a combination. If the metal is cooled at a thickness under stress and it’s then machined thinner it has a tendency to revert back to it’s original shape. So your three decimal place precise machining could be made an into egg not a circle…
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Thanks for your response.
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Twisting my words as I never said anything remotely resembling that.
If you can’t admit that business practices in China are at least slightly different than the US, then you’re being incredibly disingenuous.
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Of course, Ed. Happy to be a resource here.
Many things to look at like gd&t and QC when considering the quality of a product. I cannot speak for the strictness or leniency of tolerances on overseas manufacturers, but besides material this will also play a large role in the end result.
There’s a lot to know in this industry, we cant expect everyone to be an expert. 
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That’s hilarious. Guess my comment had an impact on someone.
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I’m a guitar player, some of my pedals are now sold for several times what i paid. Mostly cause demand is greater than supply. An inverted jenny stamp is worth 24 cents on a letter, but sells for over a million dollars. There is nothing rational about collectible items.
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I like the thick and fluffy eggo waffles
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