Does this count? Had some Mini Motu rings lying around, made a body from some delrin and fitted the rims on, then cut it for One Drop spacers. Plays very smooth! Weighs about 72 grams, tried to keep the width the same as a Mini Motu.
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sure it matters!
Congratulations, a great job in my opinion!!! 
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Great work!!!
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I remember how the various plastic axles melted on the first Survivalist attempts. I wonder if you’ll have any issues like that, or maybe not since the friction is probably not as intense in this situation?
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I wondered the same, but it doesn’t seem to melt at all. There isnt enough firm contact with the little nubs to cause any melting.
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I’ll be making a few Survivalists today. If you get in with a colour preference, I can make it for you. The aim is to make 4 or 5.
Colours you can have are:
- Rainbow recycled HDPE
- Ice white HDPE
- Black UHMWPE
- Green UHMWPE
- Blue glass filled, virtually indestructable UHMWPE (for 4 times the price because of extreme tool wear).
They will have my new response system in them which works great with Survivalists.
Get in with a PM within the next few hours, and I’ll make it today.
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Now that the new response I started using is out, I’ve started refining my original hole response.
Probably a boring post, but anyway.
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That cookies and cream looking plastic looks so nice! I still have my old Survivalist, but lost the axle somehow before I had a chance to epoxy it back in. This post just reminded me I had a question for you Glen - What material would adhere best to this plastic for a new axle? Wood? POM? Metal?
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Made a couple of skinny Survivalists yesterday. T they have a diameter of about 57mm and a width of about 23.5mm. The through axle one is slightly better.
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Go wood or metal. If you dont mind waiting you can even send it to me and I’ll fit a new axle.
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Hahahaha boring. I get it. Good one!
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I consider myself to be somewhat handy, I’ll give it a shot and if I botch it I’ll let you know. Thanks for the input!
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I picked up a piece of hdpe to try. Any advice on cutting @Glenacius_K ? I cut a small piece with a hole saw and it kept wanting to melt unless I stopped every so often and clean off the blade.
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It wont respond well at all to a hole saw, there’s just just too much contact wirh the material. You’re probably going to need to use a bandsaw or saw it by hand.
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What happened to the new response?
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From the wooden yoyo thread. I echoed a bit of a similar opinion above this post. I’m excited to see even more future response ideas, because it feels like a really unexplored design space. The current popular response systems all work really well, but after trying this it does make me wonder if there’s another unexplored option that will wind up being even better.
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I have plenty of ideas, yet to be explored.
However, none of any of my response ideas have been purely mine, they just build on what is already been with tweaks.
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Do you mean that will “wind up even better”? 
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The KNack is my favorite 0a yoyo, and I understand wanting to constantly improve it. Some ideas that came to mind were 1) countersinking the holes to reduce the friction and 2) spiral the holes so they’re not all the same distance from the axle or maybe just offset them a little from each other (trickier to keep balanced, but your CAD people could probably help with that).
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