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Also for future raffles it would be an idea to have auctions on popular numbers.

ta0, you should ask 50 percent more for specific numbers.

That could have been a good idea. We might implemented in a future raffle.
Anyway, if somebody wants a specific number, they should get it as soon as possible, before somebody else gets it.

ta0, you should ask 50 percent more for specific numbers.

hi all
I plan to buy tickets but I have to wait for my
fetish numbers
can I book a specific number in advance ?


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jim

Well, Maurizio also asked me for a specific one. Let's give people what they want. I'll change the rules so this is possible. You can ask for the number(s) when paying.

I found out from this very good article from a Russian (!) figurine collector that: "After the end of WWII "Louis Marx & Company" registered a new subsidiary, "Charmore Company", named in honor of David Marx's wife Charlene."  Marx was an American company but also had manufacturing in Europe.

is it difficult to detached ,to release the string ?

The secrete is to release the tension when the string becomes untwisted between the twist-right and the twist-left phases. If you time it correctly, centrifugal force will open the string and the top will be released.
Some of the tricks require releasing the top and sending it in a specific direction and I find that more difficult, specially upwards when you spun it sideways.

hi all
I plan to buy tickets but I have to wait for my
fetish numbers
can I book a specific number in advance ?


🤯🤓

jim

great toy !
they have improved the shape of the racket
and added the edges
is it difficult to detached ,to release the string ?

thanx for sharing
jim

Video is badly needed! Either a link to an existing one, or,.......

I haven't found any videos so I'm planning to make one. 

Video is badly needed! Either a link to an existing one, or,.......

I finally got a FA-LO top, which is the buzzer-started top I had first tried at Cyril's.

This is the one from Cyril:



This is mine:



And these are the instructions and trick sheet:



It works quite well. I have done several of the not-so-easy tricks on the trick sheet. The top can be caught in the air so it rewinds itself and you can spin it up again.

Mine was made in Swansea, Wales (UK) by Marx but Cyril's was made in the US by Charmore, N. J. (a Louis Marx company, I believe). The patent by Norman Jarand Rivers of Tucson, Arizona, is from 1944, US2360593: