What yoyo would you like to see made of titanium?

What about an undersized pocket friendly titanium?

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Thatā€™s been doneā€¦it was called the ricochet 8)

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This

Would have to be a total redesign then.

Gradient with thinner walls? Might end up super stable with all that rim weight. Switching from spikes to ultralights would shed some weight too.

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Why?

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Sorry. Forgot to quote this.

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Oooooh. I missed that post earlier. I understand.

It looks like its close to 1.6 times the weight. I never knew it was so much heavier.

ā€œTitanium is 60% the weight of steel, and aluminum is 60% the weight of titanium.ā€
Source: weight difference between aluminum and titanium | 1911Forum

"Aluminum .09750 lb/ci

Titanium .16300 lb/ci

Tensile Yield Strength
6061-T6 45,000 PSI
7075-T6 67,000 PSI

Titanium (general) 110,000 PSI" (edited)
source: http://www.cnczone.com/forums/general-off-topic-discussions/19373-titanium-vs-aluminum.html

So its not about just because you can stretch the walls laughably thin, but rather youā€™d almost need to in order to save weight.
sings The more you know!!!

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Yeah. I had no idea Ti and Al weā€™re so different. All this is good info.

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I think there is a lot of room for experimentation here, since titanium is denser than aluminum.

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Iā€™d say the OD Sovereign and Oxy Ti 2011 both fall under pocket throw given they both have pretty small diameters and are quite thin.

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Iā€™m thinking like, Executive or Masamini small though.

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Chief
Supernova

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A Russ Andert mini thatā€™s fully titanium.

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I got something similar cooking :wink:

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Any chance youā€™d make it a little larger? but keep the width? ;D

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I like where this is goingā€¦

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I like the sound of that a lot.

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Right now, itā€™s sitting at about 45mm diameter, and 31mm width, but if youā€™re thinking like Walter, someone else might be on that :wink:

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Nine dragons or something with v5

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I was totally thinking about that today! Really thin titanium shells for it! Would that be possible?

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