YYF Replay

Some of my favorite yoyos are bricks.

I am a little wary of unscrewing it or fooling with it too much. My early impressions tell me the innards are fragile.

There we have it.

A ā€˜floaty’ ā€˜brick’.

The more solid the better for me, and this is definitely solid. How does something feel ā€œcheap?ā€ :-\ I always thought it referred to something ā€œlightā€ or flimsy when I read that before.

Someone on IG removed the caps and posted that it plays better without them. I’m not sure how credible that post was though. I wouldn’t take the risk myelf, but always get a chuckle, because it never takes people long to start tinkering and modding things. :smiley:

just got mine. it plays great. doesn’t feel like a brick at all to me. To me the regen felt kinda hollow and cheap, the replay definitely doesn’t, it has a nice solid feel to it with great spin time and balance. I’ll have to play with it some more to figure out if it’ll replace the diffusion to as my edc but it just might.

Having played it more, I’m growing to like it. It’s a pretty good yoyo for the price.

I sort of like the Replay. But even after trying several different (and different types) of bearings it remains noisy and has too much vibe.

That’s strange, all the Replays we tried here were really smooth right out of the box. Did you try tightening/loosening it at all to see if that reduces the vibe?

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Really smooth? Really? Mine does vibe and it’s not quiet either, but I didn’t expect much else. I don’t have a problem with it, though now I’m a little jealous of these really smooth Replays.

Would anyone else describe theirs that way?

Mine is very smooth for a plastic…far smoother than ANY of the Yeti’s or other full plastics i’ve played. It most definitely plays better than the speedaholic. i’m not sure what type of plastic was used but it almost feels like it has some sort of blasted finish. It is hands down the best grinding plastic yoyo i’ve ever played (even far better than delrin). If you didn’t pick one of these up I would highly suggest it…spins hard and stable and is EXTREMELY fun to play. Definitely the new record holder for best playing $15 yoyo!!! 8)

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Mine has a Yeti pulse, which is completely understandable.

With vibe you kinda go through stages. In the first stage, you don’t know what it is, so you couldn’t care less. When you realize what vibe is, you obsess over it. Then after some years, you finally learn to love it and forget about it again.

I don’t mind the little pulse at all. :slight_smile:

Like hubstacks?

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I think it’s more like counterweight.

Now I’m sad that Chuck and Jensen are gone :sob:

Mine was too. I tightened it a fair bit past the arrows and now it is much smoother and quieter.

I’d like to try tightening it even more, but I don’t know how far I can before shattering it.

I screwed mine together, and it was practically right at the arrows at that point. It played smooth from there.

A plastic yo-yo is only going to be so smooth. Replay is smoother than the other yo-yos I own in that price range, and smoother than many more that are more expensive.

Yeah. I do not own a Replay, and while plastic yo-yos are notorious for being difficult to tune, I know that they must be tune-able. I have not yet encountered a plastic yo-yo that I have been unable to tune.

How can I tune my unresponsive modded Classic then? What are some things I can do? It’s very vibey.

This thing is super vibey, like 5/10 smoothness how do I fix it?

There are many methods.

I would suggest unscrewing the axle and then screwing it in on the other side. If that doesn’t work, you should try playing around with how tight the axle is screwed in. I always screw my yo-yo’s together using the palms of my hands, so that when any sizable amount of resistance is felt, the yo-yo will stop screwing in. This place is a great start for tightening and loosening how tight the yo-yo is screwed together. Try using different bearings, too. I’ve found that some yo-yo’s are smoother with some particular bearings.

I’m terrible at describing how to tune, however, so if this doesn’t make any sense then I’m sorry. Learning how to tune a yo-yo will come with time and practice, but it is an invaluable tool. Many times I have encountered a yo-yo deemed ā€œvibeyā€ and brought it back over to the smooth side by simply using some basic tuning methods.

Another method worth noting: teflon (plummer’s) tape. This stuff is magical.

Awesome Yo-yo for $15 ;D
Great job YoYoFactory!!!

^ Wow, nice images there. Have you guys seen the new color Replays popping up? Maybe blue and green are coming. ;D YoyoFactory posted this one:

From @yoyofactory Instagram:

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Eric Koloski posted this one on his IG account:

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