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[pplgrande]

Check it out, here is a spintop you can eat...........

[pplgrande]

Aparently is a mold

[pplgrande]

Put two together and ...................

[agentsac]

oh, wow. quite a dilemma. i love chocolate and spintops...do i eat it or spin it?!

[ta0]

oh, wow. quite a dilemma. i love chocolate and spintops...do i eat it or spin it?!

The answer would be to first spin it and then eat it, of course!
Unless the mold is made out of lead (looks pretty old): then just spin it.

I believe Jim has some chocolate spintop molds but we didn't spin any chocolate when I visited (we did not have time!)

[pplgrande]

I dont know what material it is but this is what the mold is called

ANTON REICHE DRESDEN GERMANY CHOCOLATE MOLD SPIN TOP

Its selling for 9.99 right now
And it does look rusty

[pplgrande]

check it out

[Watts' Tops]

What a great idea.  I'd love to have a mold like that. How about someone going into business making and selling molds?

[Darren Kim]

New trick: Roller Coaster to mouth...

[kevinm]

New trick: Roller Coaster to mouth...

i have done corkscrew to mouth several times, but it wasn't a chocolate top, and i didn't eat it, it just bouced off my face.

[ta0]

Ok, I confess, I got that chocolate mold     I must be addicted to chocolate 

Actually, I didn't have chocolate around so I first tried it with the salt water taffy candy Mike left but the resulting top was too sticky to wrap. So I then tried it with ShapeLock , a moldable plastic. This plastic becomes soft enough to shape by hand at 65C (150F) and hardens below 55C (130F). According the the website it is machineable and easy to saw, drill, tap and mill although to me it feels a little too rubbery for that. Anyway, this was my first experiment with the material and I got a working spintop:



I can boomerang it but it doesn't spin long on the hand. On the floor it spins ok.

 I am thinking that a boomerang with one made out of chocolate will be challenging, specially if I want to eat it, but I need to try 

[pplgrande]

Thats really cool ta0, I was hoping someone got it, i was curious on how a trompo would come out, it came out awesome
Now a chocolate one............. that would defenetly be interesting

[silvertop]

Very cool!  -- I'll have to get some of that ShapeLock stuff!

[hemingsoft]

It looks like this could be a good mold for an ice top also. 

(Or a Jell-O top!  )

[pplgrande]

I been thinking about it, and thinking of something eatable and hard enough to spin
How about baking a brownie trompo, if done right, it can defenetly be hard enough to spin, and tasty too