In space no one can hear you scream. I guess that’s why the Duncan Mark II Shrieking Sonic Satellite was discontinued.
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I kinda wanna hear it now… fr
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This yoyo gives me the wantyness. Hhhnnnnnggggg 
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It looks soft. Kinda like corduroy!
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We want AUDIO… AUDIO… AUDIO!!!
This is Earth… let that baby scream. 
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Mostly other type of throwing today, first contest and got dead last (as expected) but very fun. And got a few reps in on the course
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Honeycomb by @MinerJ with a MR85 concave blank by @AudreySickburn, cotton type 10 YYE string
Responds excellent for 0A. If you swap in a MR85 bearing it’s great for old-school 1A (and 0A but the blank gives me stronger response.) Don’t be like me and use poly string with a plastic blank as the friction from a strong throw causes issues, burned through a few blanks until I realized my error, use cotton with the blanks from my experience for an excellent experience. Poly works great with an actual MR85 bearing.
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Which ones burned through? The blue or pink? Or both?
The blue ones are an experiment, they are an ultra low friction plastic called iglide I’m testing.
The pink are my standard HTPLA which should be a bit more temperature resistant.
I’m also going to attempt making some polycarbonate, polypropylene , nylon, and polykeytone blanks in the future. Should be a lot more temperature resistant than even the HTPLA. So gathering info.
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MinerJ had sent me 5, I burned through some of his before I realized my ignorance. So when yours arrived I had swapped to cotton and haven’t been throwing any monster sleepers.
I’m using the pink one. I can stress test the pink or blue with a poly if you’d like, just let me know at your leisure
Edit: I reexamined the 5 MinerJ sent, looks like I only ruined 2, those two were PLA. The TPU, PETG (95A shore hardness) and PA6 (nylon) seem to be intact, but I cannot remember if I gave those three hell like I did the two PLA
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I’ve printed them in TPU, PLA, HTPLA, PA6, and PETG so far, but haven’t had a chance to really test them yet. Have some ASA and PC I planned on testing too. Curious about how the iglide works (and also curious how well it prints).
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Discussion inspired me to pick up the zero by @atdesignlab this morning.
20mm axle in a 50 x 39.5mm, 60.8g yo-yo.
There used to be a longer explanation of the design on the website, which is unfortunately unavailable(?). From other sources, I gather that the axle length was integral to hitting a balance of max maneuverability without the yo-yo being prone to flopping over.
Seems to work that way for me. I have to very actively manage tilt, but it is achievable without being frustrating, even working through pretty prone mounts (for me).
Even with the visual cue of the prominent axle nubs, the length of the axle makes unscrewing it feel like being set up for a practical joke. It just keeps spinning.
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This. I just know I’ll hate the sound, but also need to know what it sounds like.
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Haha Yeah, this thing is awesome and keeps on giving and giving too. The response - as I had stated in another post - is just perfect. It’s super reliable and crisp, but at the same time it feels incredibly smooth and soft with enough leeway to throwing longer 1A tricks and getting it back to the hand. The fact that it perfectly takes Duncan caps (48mm) makes it pretty versatile as well. I had metal caps, plastic caps and metal rings in it (I think it would even take Duncan’s metal fingerspin caps) and it plays differently and still very capable in every setup. My favorite setup so far is with those metal rings and a curved bearing installed. This way it’s an unresponsive, rim-weighted but still lightweight stable joy to throw for hours. The combination of the D-size bearing (high rpm) with the extra rim weight and the overall lighter weight (in particular the feel of the lower density wood) really does it for me. @rkalajian It actually feels incredibly smooth and soft to the touch. It’s a joy to just hold it in the hand. The only thing it doesn’t excel at is maybe 0A because due to its shape stalls aren’t as easy to hold. But since I found my perfect setup with an unresponsive bearing this doesn’t bother me in the slightest 
I can’t recommend it enough.
P.S. The same goes for the POM Spingadget which even takes two caps on each side which makes it even more versatile and it has that POM-y smoothness too 
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Yes do me a favor and throw the absolute crap out of both lol. Especially the iglide. It was expensive for a roll (but I can probably make thousands of blanks from the roll) so I wanna know if it was worth the price and performs how it’s supposed to. It’s usually used in like industrial machines and stuff.
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It looks great in the blue!
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How do the TPU ones respond? I would have assumed they gave too much friction and turned all throws into loopers but haven’t tried. That could actually be interesting on softer TPU like some 70-82a if you wanted instant response, it would be like a response pad axle lol.
For your nylon is it pure PA6, glass fiber, cf, or a copolymer like Nylon 6-66?
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I’m not surprised about the PLA ones, those are gonna be melt prone. The other 3 types are probably not gonna burn through or break. The TPU one being a rubber may respond really fast so watch your knuckles and or face lol. Depending on the nylon used that one is probably indestructible
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Unfortunately, they both seemed to hear up rather fast, the pink and blue, and stop sleeping. I made sure the string was very loose as well.
When I took them out for a picture, the string was stuck to them and had to peel off. I’m sorry I didn’t have better results, I’m hoping I’m an anomaly.
I see now that you included two of each though, so I will use the others with cotton for 0A which doesn’t really require hard throws at all.
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Thanks for testing! Don’t be sorry! It’s good data.
I saw some PETG with 10% Teflon maybe I will try making some nonstick pan blanks. lol.
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