Show some plastic yoyos you made

Lukoyo · December 19, 2022, 1:13pm

This is giving me Luncha Libre vibes, but in a good way!

Looks good man!

Y3TI · December 19, 2022, 4:00pm

Thought I would share my SLA 3d printed designs from this weekend. Still working out how to get good print quality

Zacy · December 19, 2022, 5:39pm

I love all these throws that are being made! Was it easy for y’all to jump into making your own plastics? It’s something I’ve wanted to do for awhile but haven’t worked up the guts to do it.

Y3TI · December 20, 2022, 3:46am

I’ve only been printing yoyos since this weekend and started designing in late September, but for me the hard part was realizing how much I wanted to make yoyos and believing that I could make it happen.
CAD is free and you can always use a service like shapeways to get your design printed. I did that for my first one and it was under $50
My 3d printer was around $190 which was fairly reasonable considering that I now have a machine that makes yoyos.
Living 16yo me’s dreams

p44company · December 20, 2022, 2:07pm

what a fascinating design, me likey.

Y3TI · December 20, 2022, 3:12pm

55mmx31mm 66g
21.5mm pads cause why not. Binds feel great
I’m having problems with the inside is parts printing poorly so the cap/ring/body fit is pretty bad. I can get that figured out

joegenda · December 20, 2022, 5:33pm

If I could get access to those cad files that’d be amazing!

yoyospirit · January 25, 2023, 7:39pm

Hoping to add some pics to this thread soon! Just ordered some raw material with the goal of making some counterweights, hubstacks, and create bodies from scratch to fit old Yoyojam rims. Gonna be trying to make the X-Convict, Dark Magic 2, New Breed, and Hitman bodies for the rims.