# Spin top button?
**URL:** https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366
**Category:** General Yo-Yo
**Created:** [June 9, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366 "2010-06-09T03:38:49Z")
**Posts on this page:** 13
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### Author:  [@I6ify](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/I6ify)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/1 "2010-06-09T03:38:49Z")
Recently, I watched some yoyofactory videos, and they called the counter weights “spin top buttons” whats up with that? Copywrite issues?
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### Author:  [@yoyoaddict96](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/yoyoaddict96)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 3:42am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/2 "2010-06-09T03:42:07Z")
ya. counterweight is taken. so now there spin top buttons witch doesn’t make sense to me.
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### Author:  [@I6ify](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/I6ify)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 3:47am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/3 "2010-06-09T03:47:03Z")
Can you buy “spin top buttons”? And I mean from yoyofactory
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### Author:  [@ratfacedudeguy](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/ratfacedudeguy)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 4:05am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/4 "2010-06-09T04:05:35Z")
They sell them at competitions - 4 for $1.00.
Also, you’re right about the copyright issues - Duncan has legal ownership of the term “counterweight.” Fun fact though, YoYoFactory also makes spin tops which they also sell at competitions. In spin top play, you attach a _spin top button_ to the top string to hold in your hand during play since to my knowledge there is no slipknot on the string for your finger. Handy thing about these things is they double as counterweights for 5A yoyo play, hence the terminology.
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### Author:  [@I6ify](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/I6ify)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 5:10pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/5 "2010-06-09T17:10:01Z")
Awesome, thank you, and are they all those big white ones i saw in the videos?
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### Author:  [@XLazyThrowerX](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/XLazyThrowerX)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 5:15pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/6 "2010-06-09T17:15:46Z")
If you are referring to the ones in the 5A May tutorials then yes. :wink:
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### Author:  [@I6ify](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/I6ify)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/7 "2010-06-09T20:59:13Z")
Any ideas on how much they weigh?
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### Author:  [@AgentFlynn](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/AgentFlynn)
#### Post date: [June 9, 2010, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/8 "2010-06-09T23:44:15Z")
> [@I6ify](#):
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> Awesome, thank you, and are they all those big white ones i saw in the videos?
They also have trans Red ones… I can’t wait to pick some up at worlds ;D
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### Author:  [@x52](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/x52)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 1:20am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/9 "2010-06-10T01:20:03Z")
I have four translucent red Spin Top buttons. My favorite counterweights! They feel a little lighter by a little then the Duncan die counterweight.
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### Author:  [@gee](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/gee)
#### Post date: [June 10, 2010, 6:39am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/10 "2010-06-10T06:39:15Z")
The red ones are plastic and the white ones are bouncy balls (at least they were when I picked some up at worlds 09). A spin top button is what goes on the end of the string of a spin top so you can hold onto it. Same thing as a counterweight without the royalties and licensing and all that jive nonsense
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### Author:  [@hubstack](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/hubstack)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 12:24am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/11 "2010-06-11T00:24:25Z")
please delete ur post its raciest and can offened some people(no im not) and please change ur username its offencive to(im still not) also change ur fav yoyo and fav trick its offincive to(no im not)
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### Author:  [@gee](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/gee)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 1:49am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/12 "2010-06-11T01:49:19Z")
wait what?
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### Author:  [@Smoke770077](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/u/Smoke770077)
#### Post date: [June 11, 2010, 1:53am UTC](https://forums.yoyoexpert.com/t/spin-top-button/15366/13 "2010-06-11T01:53:20Z")
> [@yoyo jake](#):
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> please delete ur post its raciest and can offened some people(no im not) and please change ur username its offencive to(im still not) also change ur fav yoyo and fav trick its offincive to(no im not)
huh?
And Duncan also patented selling counterweights packaged with yoyos… So you’ll never see a Spintop button with a Dienasty or anything… I hope once they start selling the YYF spintops online they will sell the buttons two… I’d like to try some…