So I’ve been doing more testing on the durability of the Survivalist.
After running over it twice with the car and it still remaining functional, I decided to repeatedly throw it into the concrete as hard as I could.
Apart from the obvious effect of serious gouges and scratches, it still remained functional. Not even the axle was bent in the slightest.
Whoa.
Thought I’d make the current design Survivalist out of its original material. UHWMPE!
So the current run coming to YYE is made of the recycled HDPE and is already incredibly tough for a yoyo. The UHMWPE is next level. Even the thin swarf from making them is incredibly hard to break. I’m way better at turning plastic nowadays too, so this one is really clean.
Duuuude, every post about these survivalists is driving me crazy for when they drop at YYE.
I got some custom guts sets from Onedrop in the post for a collaboaration I have in the works. They have a 4.6mm gap instead of 4.25mm. It so much better. Way less grabby and snaggy. I like them here’s a picture of them in one of my Whippets
Is the red unresponsive I have a whippet?
No I think that’s a one off you have there.
WoW! I’d love to see pics of these custom guts. Are the much different than the cabal guts?
Is the collab with One Drop!?!
It is not, but it’s gonna be big.
Well received may be a better word to use.
Its going to take some time prototyping though, I’d also like to develop my tooling and methods a little further for this one too.
They have a wider gap, that is all. These ones are for the collab only.
So we won’t see these til 2023. Such a tease. Got my hackles up.
Actually, I found out yesterday that I will be able to set up my workshop in the house I will be staying at, so production will not cease!
This is fantastic news. I hope your roomies/landlord/in-laws know that they’re making a bunch of yoyo nerds very happy, 
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Ooh nice.
Very interesting. Is it turned or 3D printed?
Printed.
Thank you. I was looking while at work and couldn’t tell on my phone. Looking now on a computer screen I can see it.
What glue/epoxy would you recommend for securing steel axle to plastic? My cheap super glue isn’t cutting it.
