[crw-talk] Top Challenge for March meeting

[John & Donna Griffiths]

Fellow members,

I took it on myself to encourage members to make tops for the April 30 
Earth Day event the club when we will be demonstrating. And giving away 
tops.

Pam Day, our organizer wants lots of tops to give away to families to 
generate interest.

So I have decided to organize a Top Challenge for the March meeting.  So 
please make and donate tops to the club.  Bring some in for the March 
meeting and we will have a spin off.  Spin your top on a porcelain or 
china plate (on a table top) for a minimum of friction, a long spin time 
and no need to get down on the floor.  Then donate them to the club.  
And an engineering hint even though I'm no engineer, make the handle of 
the top nice and skinny so it gets maximum RPMs when you give it a spin. 
  If someone is really competitive, they can keep track of the spin times 
to see if we have a winner.  Anyway, more then one way to turn a top, 
pun intended. Use whatever design you want.  Decorate them.  Club old 
timers will remember Wendell Ziegler's use of markers to decorate as he 
turned them.  So go for it.

Easy Peasy and lots of fun.  See you in about three weeks,

  John
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